Martinez Tapia v. Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A.

How courts have described this case

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• stating appropriate inquiry presumably would have disclosed sufficient information to detect alleged misrepresentations at early stage
• “[i]nquiry notice is triggered by evidence of the possibility of fraud, not by complete exposure of the alleged scam.”
• in the context of the statute of limitations, \party claiming fraud and/or misrepresentation must exercise due diligence to discover the alleged fraud\
• “[W]here the investor controls a nondiscretionary account and retains the ability to make investment decisions, the scope of any duties owed by the broker will generally be confined to executing the investor’s order.”
• Hedge, when referring to allegations that Ignite is a pyramid scheme: “Hey look, have any of y’all heard that? Has anyone ever . . . Let’s get something straight—I don’t care if you call it an octagon, parallelogram, rectangle—they’re sending me a check.”
• applying same rule under Texas law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).