Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Case

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• rejecting a shotgun pleading defense in part because defendants were “represented by the same counsel, accepted service as a single entity, and all joined in the instant motion to dismiss”
• “Plaintiffs’ scatter-shot pleading lists examples of Defendants’ marketing statements without identifying which specific statement(s), if any, Plaintiff were exposed to.”
• “The specific role of each defendant will be elucidated through discovery to which [p]laintiffs are entitled because the allegations in the Amended Complaint are sufficient to provide notice under Rule 8.”
• “Because neither fraud nor .mistake is an element of unfair conduct under Illinois’ Consumer Fraud Act, a cause of action for unfair practices under the Consumer Fraud Act need only meet the notice pleading standard of Rule 8(a

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