Price v. Stonega Coke & Coal Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• listing cases in which courts have found reliance is apparent or that a common sense inference of reliance was appropriate
• finding commonality 16 in an alleged RICO scheme for fraudulent marketing when there were common questions 17 of whether the defendant made certain representations to the putative class members, and 18 whether such representations were false and materially misleading
• “[U]nlike gambling, purchasing real estate seminars is not the type of consumer activity that is susceptible to wide-ranging behavioral rationales.”
• “Courts have found that reliance can be established on a class-wide basis where the behavior of plaintiffs and class members cannot be explained in any way other than reliance upon the defendant's conduct.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).