Blue Cross of Rhode Island v. Caldarone

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• “Because the Rules allow threshold defenses such as lack of personal jurisdiction to be pled by answer, those defenses are preserved even if coupled with counterclaims.”
• “[Section 2201] ‘confer[s] on federal courts unique and substantial discretion in deciding whether to declare the rights of litigants,’ even if the declaratory claim ‘otherwise satisfies subject matter jurisdictional prerequisites.’”
• “The Rules do not require that threshold defenses always be pled by motion. Rather, Rules 12(b) and 12(h) provide that a defendant must assert its defense, absent a pre- 3 Rule 12(g)(2

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