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New California Supreme Court Case Opens Door to Attacks on Contracts

by Hopkins & Carley on 3/19/2013

For the past 70 years, California courts have held that a party is barred from claiming fraud based on an alleged oral misrepresentation that directly contradicts the express terms of a written agreement. This rule had long...more

Don't Panic - The Fall of Pendergrass and Restoring the Full Fraud Exception to the Parol Evidence Rule May Not Be as Bad as You...

by Michael Walsh | Sedgwick LLP on 2/27/2013

In Riverisland Cold Storage, Inc., v. Fresno-Madera Prod. Credit Ass., S190581, the unanimous California Supreme Court recently overturned the widely criticized Pendergrass rule, thus restoring the full breadth of the fraud...more

California Supreme Court Eases Admissibility of Oral Statements in Contract Fraud Disputes

by Melissa Lor | Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP on 2/22/2013

California, like most jurisdictions, prohibits parties to integrated contracts from introducing “parol evidence” — this is, evidence of prior written or verbal agreements made by a party to a contract — if those alleged...more

Promises to Keep—Lender Beware: California Supreme Court Expands Parol Evidence Fraud Exception

by Craig A. Barbarosh, Jennifer Brooks, Karen B. Dine | Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 2/21/2013

In 1935, the California Supreme Court in Bank of America National Trust and Savings Ass’n v. Pendergrass prohibited a borrower from introducing external or parol evidence to demonstrate fraud in connection with an agreement...more

Ninth Circuit Affirms Dismissal Of Unfair Competition Claims Over Teaser Rates

by BuckleySandler LLP on 1/21/2013

On January 9, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a putative class action against a national bank over its adjustable rate mortgage disclosure and payment application....more

California Supreme Court Eliminates Lender Defense to Borrower Fraud Claims

by James Wright | Buchalter Nemer on 1/17/2013

On January 14, the California Supreme Court issued its opinion in Riverisland Cold Storage v. Fresno-Madera Production Credit Assn., which takes away a lender defense to borrower fraud claims and will therefore have a...more

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