Freedom Mortgage Corp. v. Burnham Mortgage, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that plaintiff did not meet consumer nexus test because plaintiff did “not allege[] [that defendant] . . . made misrepresentations to the general public”
• holding that plaintiff must allege that defendant made misrepresentation to general public in order to meet consumer nexus test
• declining to dismiss as duplicative claims for negligence and negligent misrepresentation “because the elements” of the two torts “are materially different under Illinois law”
• closing agents were in business of providing information to others where services were not incidental to a contractual duty or the performance of an act but instead performed “analytical work”
• “It is well-settled that duplicative counts in a complaint may be properly dismissed.” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “Plaintiffs can pursue different causes of action based on the same set of facts, though they can recover only once for the injury.” (internal citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).