Gruenwald v. Advanced Computer Applications, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding plaintiff’s “belief, in and of itself, is simply insufficient to prove a claim of fraud”
• stating that trial court may disregard affidavit sworn in response to summary judgment motion when it directly contradicts fact and the court therefore finds it not wholly credible
• holding where the trial court was permitted to rely solely on an affidavit to create a genuine issue of material fact, while recognizing that an affidavit may be disregarded when it is not wholly credible
• “Accepting Gruenwald’s affidavit as true, [the described] promise of employment was far too indefinite to support a lifetime contract.”
• “It is the nonmoving party’s responsibility to demonstrate that a genuine issue of material fact exists….”
• to prove fraud, a plaintiff must show injury that was proximately caused by reliance on the defendant’s misrepresentation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).