Oswego Laborers' Local 214 Pension Fund v. Marine Midland Bank, N. A.

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• concluding that the requirement was met because claim involved an extensive marketing scheme
• ruling that a bank’s liability under NYGBL § 349 would depend on “whether plaintiffs possessed or could reasonably have obtained the relevant information they now claim the Bank failed to provide”
• holding that under an objective definition of deceptive acts and practices, liability for omissions lies where a defendant “possesses material information that is relevant to the consumer and fails to provide this information”
• stating that “as we have repeatedly stated, reliance is not an element of a section 349 claim” and collecting cases
• holding conduct to be \consumer-oriented\ where defendant Bank interacted with plaintiffs' representative the same as any other customer opening a savings account
• finding that conduct related to bank’s policies regarding savings accounts were consumer oriented because policy applied to “any customer entering the bank to open a savings account”

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