Precluding Fraud Claims- The Winning Provision to put in your Contracts

• January 22nd, 2010
• W. Jay Brown
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For years, commercial litigators have used merger clauses within contracts as a defense to fraud claims. The merger clause can prevent evidence of fraud from being introduced via the parol evidence rule and can also make any alleged reliance “unreasonable.”…