Arthur Berardi v. Swanson Memorial Lodge No. 48 of the Fraternal Order of Police

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the factual basis for jurisdictional allegations in a complaint could be disputed before an answer was served
• stating that a district court must ensure that a plaintiff has “had an opportunity to present facts by affidavit or by deposition, or in an evidentiary hearing,” to support his claim of jurisdiction (citation omitted)
• stating that a district court must ensure that a plaintiff has “had an opportunity to present facts by affidavit or by deposition, or in an evidentiary hearing,” to support his claim of jurisdiction (citation omitted)
• stating that a district court must ensure that a plaintiff has “had an opportunity to present facts by affidavit or by deposition, or in an evidentiary hearing,” to support his claim of jurisdiction (citation omitted)
• reversing dismissal when plaintiff had no opportunity before dismissal to address independent substantive legal theory adopted by court
• affirming dismissal of a complaint where the defendant was not subject to the statute under which plaintiff sued

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).