Shabani v. Baker

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing a duty to inform customers of certain information where failure to do so would cause the customer to be misled
• recognizing a duty to inform customers of certain information where failure to do so would cause the customer to be misled
• finding that the reprehensibility of a RICO wire fraud scheme justified an award of punitive damages when the defendant’s conduct was deceitful, involved repeated actions, and targeted financially vulnerable individuals
• reducing one-million-dollar punitive damage award to $250,000 in case involving $115 in actual damages, with the reduced amount still constituting a ratio of over 2,100:1
• “[I]t is not necessary for a plaintiff to point to affirmative misstatements in order to establish the requisite fraudulent intent of a defendant under the mail and wire fraud statutes.” (citation omitted)
• reducing a jury’s punitive damages award of $1,000,000 to $250,000

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).