Christopher Gorog v. Best Buy Co., Inc.

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• recognizing that contract documents attached to defendant’s motion to dismiss were necessarily embraced by the pleadings and appropriately considered
• stating that documents necessarily embraced by the complaint are not matters outside the pleadings
• finding the district court properly relied upon contracts attached to the defendant’s motion to dismiss because the plaintiffs claim rested upon these contracts
• noting that “matters outside the pleadings” include “any written or oral evidence in support of or in opposition to the pleading that provides some substantiation for and does not merely reiterate what is said in the pleadings”
• requiring the Court to draw all reasonable inferences in favor of the Plaintiffs
• “Though matters outside the pleading may not be considered in deciding a Rule 12 motion to dismiss, documents necessarily embraced by the complaint are not matters outside the pleading.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).