Legal Opinion
Full Spectrum Software, Inc. v. Forte Automation Systems, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 2, 2017No. 15-2193PPublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BARRON, Circuit Judge.
This appeal concerns a dispute between two businesses: Forte Automation Systems, Inc. (“Forte”), the defendant-appellant, and Full Spectrum Software, Inc. (“Full Spectrum”), the plaintiff-appellee. Their dispute requires us to resolve two distinct legal issues. The first turns on whether the evidence in the record suffices to sustain the jury’s verdict and chiefly concerns the scope of the Massachusetts catch-all consumer protection statute, chapter 93A. See Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 93A. The other turns on whether Full Spectrum had a right to have its chapter 93A claim for…
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