Cullen v. Auto-Owners Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that on a motion to dismiss, courts must indulge all reasonable inferences from the well-pled factual allegations in a complaint
• holding that complaint must set forth well- pled facts to give opponent fair notice of the nature and basis of the claim, and that mere conclusory statements are insufficient
• holding that in reviewing the sufficiency of a complaint, a court may not accept as true unsupported conclusions or “speculate about hypothetical facts that might entitle the plaintiff to relief.”
• explaining that “mere conclusory statements are insufficient to state a claim upon which relief can be granted” under notice pleading requirements
• stating that we limit our review to the pleading itself when adjudicating a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss
• stating that the purpose of notice pleading is to put the opposing party on notice of the claims against it

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).