Geimer v. Bank of America, N.A.

How courts have described this case

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• finding state law claims sounding in tort and breach of contract were not preempted by the EFTA
• declining to dismiss a negligence claim against a bank at the pleadings stage because of the possibility that “an extra- contractual duty between banks and their depositors might permit such a claim”
• state common law contract claims not preempted because greater protection arising from longer limitations period
• allegations demonstrating a mere creditor-debtor relationship did not rise to level of fiduciary relationship
• the relationship between a bank and a depositor is “no more than ‘an arms-length transaction between debtor and creditor’” (quoting Miller v. Am. Nat’l Bank & Tr. Co., 4 F.3d 518, 520 (7th Cir. 1993))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).