Woodruff v. Frost

How courts have described this case

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• holding that particularity requirement of Fed. R. Civ. P. 9(b) applies where, as here, “fraud and negligent misrepresentation claims are based on the same set of alleged facts”
• evaluating negligent misrepresentation in the same manner as fraud in part because both were “based on the same set of alleged facts”
• requiring allegations to include the time, place, and contents of the alleged false representations, as well as the identity of the person making the misrepresentation and what was fraudulently obtained to satisfy Rule 9(b)
• reversing district court decision to convert motion for judgment on pleadings
• “Rule 9(b) requires the who, what, when, where, and how to be laid out.” (cleaned up)
• “Although Rule 9(b) by its terms does not apply to negligent misrepresentation claims, this court has applied the heightened pleading requirements when the parties have not urged a separate focus on the negligent misrepresentation claims.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).