Hartness v. Purcell

How courts have described this case

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

• holding Countrywide did not owe a “duty to disclose to the plaintiffs/borrowers its alleged fraudulent scheme to create inflated property appraisals throughout California, and then pool its mortgages and sell the pools to unsuspecting investors at inflated prices”
• “Absent special circumstances, a loan transaction is at arm’s length and there is no fiduciary relationship between the borrower and lender.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).