Abels v. Farmers Commodities Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that Rule 9 does not change the notice pleading paradigm, only that certain claims under Rule 9 require “a higher degree of notice” to demonstrate facial plausibility
• “We think it only fair to give them [the benefit of discovery] before requiring them to plead facts that remain within the defendants’ private knowledge.”
• “It is settled, as we have already said, that Rule 9(b) applies to allegations of mail and wire fraud”
• “Because misrepresentations of fact are not necessary to the offense, it follows that no misrepresentations need be transmitted by mail or wire.”
• “[A] plaintiff seeking to hold a principal liable for an agent’s fraud must plead not only fraud but also agency with particularity.”
• “[A] plaintiff seeking to hold a principal liable for an agent’s fraud must plead not only fraud but also agency with particularity.”

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