Exxon Mobil Corp. v. ALA. DEPT. OF CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that the element of reliance requires the injured party to change its course of action because of the misrepresentation
• recognizing the “prohibition against punitive damages for breach of contract, even where the breach seems particularly egregious”
• “the elements of fraud are (1) a false representation (2) of a material existing fact (3) reasonably relied upon by the plaintiff (4) who suffered damage as a proximate consequence of the misrepresentation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).