American Dental Assoc. v. Cigna Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that a claim for declaratory relief as to statutory violations failed for the same reasons that the claims for the violations failed
• holding that Rule 9(b) requires, among other things, allegations of what was “gained by the alleged fraud”
• recognizing that “courts may infer from the factual allegations in the complaint ‘obvious alternative explanation[s]’ which suggest lawful conduct rather than the unlawful conduct the plaintiff would ask the court to infer”
• explaining that courts do not consider “any allegations in the complaint that are merely legal conclusions”
• emphasizing that a complaint must contain “sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to ‘state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face.’”
• explaining that courts do not consider “any allegations in the complaint that are merely legal conclusions”

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