1.   Michel Garretta and Jean-Pierre Allain were charged under fraud laws for misrepresenting the quality of a product.

2.   After the jury agreed with the plaintiffs, Speroni himself ruled that State Farm violated Illinois consumer fraud law by using substandard parts and hiding that fact from customers.

3.   For that reason, the Justice Department said, the mail fraud law does apply.

4.   In a miniseminar on federal bank fraud law, Schindler explained the statute that outlaws the deliberate use of a materially false financial statement to obtain a loan.

5.   Officials at the Justice Department have said that they believe they implicitly have authority to make criminal cases under federal wire fraud laws.

6.   Park had argued that the securities fraud laws did not apply to him because he did not fit the legal definition of an investment adviser.

7.   She said the ruling was the first to assert that state fraud laws apply to the Internet, a relatively new medium where legal precedent still is being established.

8.   So they apparently hired a lawyer to sue the Acushnet Co. for violating Illinois consumer fraud laws.

9.   The Bankruptcy Court, as I have just pointed out, followed modern fraud law in both respects.

10.   The Airline Deregulation Act, Justice Ginsburg said, did pre-empt the state from enforcing its consumer fraud law through its court system.