Empire of America Federal Savings Bank v. United States

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• dismissing fraud claims under Rule 9(b) when the plaintiffs needed to “provide greater details about the circumstances surrounding the omissions”
• under Illinois law “[a] breach of contract claim is ... subject to dismissal where it duplicates a malpractice claim”
• “Under the ICFA, it is not necessary to plead a common-law duty to disclose in order to state a claim for fraud based on an omission or concealment.”
• “Under Illinois law, a breach of fiduciary duty claim has three elements: (1) that a fiduciary duty exists, (2) that the fiduciary duty was breached, and (3) that such breach proximately caused the injury of which the plaintiff complains.”
• proximate causation constitutes an essential element of breach of fiduciary duty claim

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