Albertine Kirksey, of the Estate of Curtis Kirksey v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and Lorillard Tobacco Company, Inc.

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• recognizing that an adequate complaint may nevertheless be dismissed under Rule 12(b)(6) when the plaintiff fails to present legal arguments supporting its adequacy
• noting that even though a complaint may comply with the simple notice pleading requirements of Rule 8(a)(2), it may nonetheless be dismissed under Rule 12(b)(6
• explaining that judges are not obligated to “do the plaintiff’s research and try to discover whether there might be something to say against the defendants’ reasoning”
• affirming dismissal of complaint pursuant to 12(b)(6) where plaintiff failed to respond responsively to motion
• noting “[a]n unresponsive response is no response. In effect the plaintiff was defaulted for refusing to respond to the motion to dismiss. And rightly so.”
• noting that plaintiffs need only plead a short statement, in plain English, of the legal claim, stating that “[t]he courts keep reminding plaintiffs that they don’t [ ] have to file long complaints, don’t have to plead facts, don’t have to plead legal theories.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).