United States v. Regent Office Supply Co., Inc., and Oxford Office Systems, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that fraudulent intent — a “critical element in a scheme to defraud” — requires “an attempt to deceive the[] prospective customers with respect to the bargain [the defendants] were offering”
• reversing the defendants’ convictions because “the falsity of their representations was not shown to be capable of affecting the customer’s understanding of the bargain nor of influencing his assessment of the value of the bargain to him”
• “But this is not to say that we could not, on different facts or more specific proof, arrive at a different conclusion”
• no fraud when misrepresentations did not “affectn the customer’s understanding of the bargain nor ... influ-encie] his assessment of the value of the bargain to him”
• “fraudulent intent is apparent” where “false representations are directed to the quality, adequacy or price of the goods themselves”
• agent represented that he or she was a doctor or other professional person

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).