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To: marktwain

Don’t they have to show damages?


10 posted on 03/13/2017 6:15:02 AM PDT by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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To: dila813
-- Don't they have to show damages? --

They are claiming fraud, and from the excerpt, the claim exists by statute, not by a common-law tort.

Legislatures make plenty of civil-penalty laws that lack the component of actual money damages.

12 posted on 03/13/2017 6:29:00 AM PDT by Cboldt
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