Chicago & North Western Railway Co. v. Order of Railroad Telegraphers

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• holding that Rule 9(b) applied to state law claims under the UCL and the FAL to the extent those claims were based on fraudulent conduct
• holding that allegations of “fraud must be accompanied by the who, what, when, where, and how of the misconduct charged”
• holding that a plaintiff must include the “who, what, when, where, and how” 25 of the fraud.
• concluding that a fraudulent conspiracy claim failed to satisfy Rule 9(b) because, among other things, the pleading failed to “provide the particulars of when, where, or how the alleged conspiracy occurred”
• holding that even when fraud is not a required element, a claim must be pleaded with particularity under Rule 9 if the alleged conduct arises from a unified fraudulent course of conduct
• explaining that FRCP 9(b)'s particularity requirement must be satisfied in addition to the pleading requirements for fraud/intentional misrepresentation claims under state law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).