Spirit Partners, LP v. Stoel Rives LLP

How courts have described this case

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• providing that fraud, negligent misrepresentation, and breach of fiduciary duty claims are governed by the two-year limitations period in O.R.S. § 12.1110(1)
• “The threshold question in a choice-of-law problem is whether the laws of the different states actually conflict.”
• “We apply the ‘most significant relationship’ approach of the Restatement (Second) of Conflict of Laws (1971) to tort claims.”
• court is not obligated to conduct a conflict-of-law analysis in the absence of express identification of material differences between Oregon law and the law of the proposed alternative forum
• argument that the law of an alternative forum might govern the parties’ dispute triggers no duty in the court to conduct a conflict-of-law analysis in the absence of express identification of material differences between Oregon law and that of the alternative forum

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).