Kenneth A. Carr v. Cigna Securities, Inc., and Cigna Individual Financial Services Co.

How courts have described this case

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• choosing to “skip over the tangled statutes of limitations issues” to “come directly” to the merits of the claims
• finding diversity of citizenship sufficient to render moot the question of whether retaining supplemental jurisdiction was appropriate in a case transferred by the multidistrict panel
• literate competent adults cannot rely on verbal statements from other side of business deal that contradict plain and binding writing
• “If a literate, competent adult is given a document that in readable and comprehensible prose says X (X might be, ‘this is a risky investment’), and the person who hands it to him tells him, orally, not-X (‘this is a safe investment’
• plaintiff bound by non-reliance statements in subscription agreement.
• applying similar rule under Oregon law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).