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'No Reliance' Defense Defeats Class Certification

Law360 (May 19, 2008, 12:00 AM EDT) -- Unlike common law fraud, most consumer fraud statutes do not require a showing of reliance. For this reason, plaintiffs have repeatedly argued that manufacturers can be held liable to an entire class of plaintiffs for an alleged misrepresentation – even if most members of the class never saw the misrepresentation, or saw it but purchased the item for some other, unrelated reason....

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