John A. Ackerman v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company

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• observing that Rule 9(b) “assure[s] that the charge of fraud is responsible and supported, rather than defamatory and extortionate”
• noting that “[a] charge of fraud is no more opaque than any other charge”
• reasoning that the higher standard of fraud pleading is warranted “because public charges of fraud can do great harm to the reputation of a business firm or other enterprise”
• stating “public charges of fraud can do great harm to the reputation of a business firm or other enterprise (or individual)”
• “[F]raud is frequently charged irresponsibly by people who have suffered a loss and want to find someone to blame for it.”
• \The purpose ... of the heightened pleading requirement in fraud cases is to force the plaintiff to do more than the usual investigation before filing his complaint.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).