Valspar Refinish, Inc. v. Gaylord's, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• requiring that the wrongful party make “a false representation ... of a past or existing material fact susceptible of knowledge”
• requiring that the misrepresentation be “made with knowledge of the falsity of the representation or made without knowing whether it was true or false”
• providing that “[r]eliance in fraud cases is generally evaluated in the context of the aggrieved party’s intelligence, experience, and opportunity to investigate the facts at issue”
• providing that “[r]eliance in fraud cases is generally evaluated in the context of the aggrieved party’s intelligence, experience, and opportunity to investigate the facts at issue”
• affirming dismissal of fraud claim in part on conclusion as a matter of law that claimant could not establish reasonable reliance on allegedly false representation
• listing the elements of fraud and negligent misrepresentation, which both require that the plaintiff relied on the false information

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).