SEARS, Justice.
This Court granted certiorari in order to consider the Court of Appeals' ruling that a valid contractual merger clause did not foreclose a civil litigant's claim of theft by deception based upon misrepresentations allegedly made during pre-contractual negotiations. As explained below, we conclude that in an arm's length business transaction, pre-contractual representations are superceded by a valid contractual merger clause, and cannot form the basis...
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