Clean Coal Techs., Inc. v. Leidos, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• granting defendant’s motion to dismiss because “there 14 [was] no allegation that [the plaintiff] directed or commanded [the third-party] to breach” the contract
• dismissing tortious interference claim where the defendant had made an independent decision to breach the contract, even though the decision “may have been eased by certain actions taken by [other defendants]”
• “It is axiomatic that a complaint cannot be amended by the briefs in opposition to a motion to dismiss.” (citation omitted)
• plaintiff failed to allege procurement because there were no factual allegations that the third party directed, commanded, or set in motion the defendant’s alleged breach
• it is “axiomatic that a complaint cannot be amended by a brief in opposition to a motion to dismiss”
• it is “axiomatic that a complaint cannot be amended by a brief in opposition to a motion to dismiss” (quoting LLM Bar Exam, LLC v. Barbri, Inc., 271 F. Supp. 3d 547, 580 (internal quotation marks and citation omitted))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cites

53 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Ashcroft v. Iqbal
  Supreme Court· 2009-05-18· cited 149,772×
• Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly
  Supreme Court· 2007-05-21· cited 146,720×
• Harris v. Mills
  Second Circuit· 2009-07-09· cited 5,185×
• Lama Holding Co. v. Smith Barney Inc.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1996-06-13· cited 1,127×
• Faber v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
  Second Circuit· 2011-08-05· cited 899×
• Brenda Curtis and Alvin Williamson v. Citibank, N.A., Citicorp North America, Inc. And Citicorp Securities
  Second Circuit· 2000-09-19· cited 587×
• Cutco Industries, Inc. v. Dennis E. Naughton
  Second Circuit· 1986-11-26· cited 566×
• Kreutter v. McFadden Oil Corp.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1988-03-29· cited 515×
• Harsco Corp. v. Segui
  Second Circuit· 1996-08-01· cited 509×
• Dorchester Financial Securities, Inc. v. Banco BRJ, S.A.
  Second Circuit· 2013-07-03· cited 499×
• Bank Brussels Lambert v. Fiddler Gonzalez & Rodriguez
  Second Circuit· 1999-03-26· cited 482×
• Licci Ex Rel. Licci v. Lebanese Canadian Bank, SAL
  Second Circuit· 2012-03-05· cited 475×
• Licci v. Lebanese Canadian Bank SAL
  Second Circuit· 2013-10-18· cited 441×
• Carvel Corp. v. Noonan
  New York Court of Appeals· 2004-10-14· cited 415×
• Spiegel v. Schulmann
  Second Circuit· 2010-05-06· cited 409×
• In Re Elevator Antitrust Litigation
  Second Circuit· 2007-09-04· cited 400×
• A.I. Trade Finance, Inc. v. Petra Bank
  Second Circuit· 1993-03-15· cited 312×
• Pdk Labs, Inc., Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellee v. Mitchell K. Friedlander, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellant
  Second Circuit· 1997-01-09· cited 305×
• Pino Distefano v. Carozzi North America, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2001-10-18· cited 302×
• In re Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001 (Asat Trust Reg.)
  Second Circuit· 2013-04-16· cited 289×