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When Rule 9(b) Applies to Non-Fraud Claims

New York Law Journal

October 9, 2012

Andrea Likwornik Weiss, a partner at Levi Lubarsky & Feigenbaum, and Catherine A. Hardee, an associate with the firm, discuss the extent to which practitioners may be able to invoke or avoid Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b)'s stringent fraud pleading standards - of particularity and a strong inference of fraudulent intent - to negligence, fiduciary breach, and other non-fraud claims.

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