Liability for funding promises
Minnesota Medical University v. Heritage Construction Companies
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Minnesota Medical University and CFO Philip Keithahn ask the Supreme Court to review their liability for negligent misrepresentation based on statements that construction funding would become available later.
- Who it affects
- MMU and Keithahn did not get Supreme Court review, and the order did not decide whether they were liable or entitled to a new trial.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
They also argue that references to MMU’s financial condition unfairly affected the trial and that the lower courts should have ordered a new trial.
The petition raised questions about liability for statements on expected future funding and whether references to MMU’s financial condition justified a new trial.
Question presented
1. Whether a corporation and its officer, personally, may be found liable for negligent misrepresentation based on representations concerning their expectation that funding would become available in the future. 2. Whether the courts below erred in refusing to grant a new trial based on numerous improper and prejudicial references to MMU’s financial condition, where such references constitute “prejudicial error” as a matter of law and where such references were not necessarily involved in determining damages.
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Sources
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