In many fraud cases, defendants reflexively assert some variant of the “forward looking” or “promissory” fraud defense: that the misstatement relates to a future event and is therefore a non-actionable statement of opinion. Illinois fraud rules require a misrepresentation to be material and present-tense factual to be actionable. Statements of future intent – like a forecast or projection (“this company is gonna make …
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