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Utah Supreme Court· 12/17/1993

State v. Larsen

Citations

  • 865 P.2d 1355
  • 228 Utah Adv. Rep. 3
  • 1993 Utah LEXIS 157
  • 1993 WL 523544

How courts have described this case

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

  • recognizing that \the Utah legislature has not required the courts to interpret the Utah Uniform Securities Act in lockstep with federal decisions\
  • explaining that willfulness is a \highly culpable mental state\ and \is not consistent with 'strict lability \
  • directing that in construing a statute’s provisions, courts are bound by its plain language
  • determining that an expert’s opinion testimony “that some of the material that [the defendant] had omitted from the securities documents could have been important or significant to an investor” was admissible
  • determining that an expert's opinion testimony \that some of the material that [the defendant] had omitted from the securities documents could have been important or significant to an investor\ was admissible
  • upholding admission of testimony in securities fraud case that information was \material\ because term could be defined in two ways, one of which involved a factual issue rather than a legal conclusion

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Judges: Zimmerman, Howe, Durham, Frederick, Rokich, Hall, Stewart

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Cites

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