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Description of Special Pleading. Special Pleading is a fallacy in which a person applies standards, principles, rules, etc. to others while taking herself (or those she has a special interest in) to be exempt, without providing adequate justification for the exemption. This sort of reasoning has the following form:
A heightened pleading standard is important to protect First Amendment rights at the very outset of litigation. Something like a Rule 9(b) requirement, which requires fraud to be pled with specificity, would be helpful in the First Amendment area, too.