HSBC Realty Credit Corp. (USA) v. O'Neill

How courts have described this case

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• applying Starr and Turner to reject a fraud claim based on alleged misrepresentations in an earlier written agreement
• applying Starr and Turner to reject a fraud claim based on alleged misrepresentations in an earlier written agreement
• rejecting fraudulent inducement claim when “contract-inducing misrepresentations . . . are irreconcilably at odds with the guaranty’s express terms”
• reliance on alleged misrepresentations that contradict the terms of a contract is unreasonable as a matter of law
• “[A] Massachusetts rule holds that one cannot induce a contract by fraud and then use contractual contrivances to duck liability.”
• “[T]he general rule . . . is that issues not developed in a party’s opening brief are waived.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).