Bjc Health System v. Columbia Casualty Company, Doing Business as Cna Healthpro

How courts have described this case

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

• ruling that documents submitted in support of motion to dismiss, that “were provided ‘in opposition to the pleading’ ” and were not undisputed, constituted “matters outside the pleading”
• concluding that documents provided by the defendant were “matters outside the pleading” because they were provided to discredit the plaintiff’s complaint, and it was uncertain whether those documents were even the documents plaintiff alleged in its complaint
• reversing 12(b)(6) dismissal when the district court relied on documents attached to the motion because the complaint alleged the existence of a contract but not those particular documents, and other evidence may have been relevant
• reversing 12(b)(6) dismissal when the district court relied on documents attached to the motion because the complaint alleged the existence of a contract but not those particular documents, and other evidence may have been relevant
• district court erred in relying on matters outside the pleading that were not public documents
• “The [three submitted] documents may or may not be the only legal agreements relevant to [plaintiffs’] alleged contract with [insurance company], and their significance is disputed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).