John MacDonald, Jr. v. Thomas M. Cooley Law School

How courts have described this case

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• adopting as the “best authority” Novak’s holding that “reliance must indeed be reasonable”
• deriving facts, on a motion to dismiss, from five exhibits attached to the complaint
• deriving facts, on a motion to dismiss, from five exhibits attached to the complaint
• “Unreasonable reliance includes relying on an alleged misrepresentation that was expressly contradicted in a written contract that a plaintiff reviewed and signed.”
• “[T]o state a claim for the tort of silent fraud, a plaintiff must allege more than non-disclosure; a plaintiff must establish that the defendant had a legal duty to make a disclosure.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “a legal duty to make a disclosure arises most commonly in a situation where inquiries are made by the plaintiff, to which the defendant makes incomplete replies that are truthful in themselves but omit material information”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).