Cotton v. Iowa Mut. Liability Ins.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that courts may consider only the pleadings and attached exhibits when deciding motions brought under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(c)
• refusing to consider unauthenticated copies of contracts offered in support of a motion to dismiss where the plaintiff “presented . . . a reasonable basis to question the validity, accuracy, or completeness of [the] documents”
• “Because the reasoning of a consent judgment is not necessarily that of the court,, it has no precedential value, and cannot be considered the court’s ‘opinion.’ ”
• “Rule 59(e) is not designed to give an unhappy litigant an opportunity to relitigate matters already decided.” (citation omitted)
• “Rule 59(e) is not designed to give an unhappy litigant an opportunity to relitigate matters already decided.”
• district court refused to rely on contracts attached to the motion to dismiss where the validity, accuracy, or completeness of the contracts was in question

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