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More on pleading fraud with particularity

By Steve

So, what good is it?

Look at this opinion and then this opinion. To my own way of thinking, that's how you want to use Rule 9 of the Federal Rules, which rule Middleditch and Sinclair says matches what Virginia law requires. Who knows what will come of that particular case, but it is much different from what I thought at the beginning.

Then again, sometimes I make these same arguments, and a judge somewhere says, nicely done, now go ahead and file your answer and let's get on with it.

Full post as published by Southwest Virginia Law Blog on March 24, 2008 (boomark / email).