Donoghue v. American Nat. Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that, if an exhibit is central to and referred to in the complaint, its consideration does not convert a motion to dismiss into a motion for a summary judgment
• noting that, if an exhibit is central to and referred to in the complaint, its consideration does not convert a motion to dismiss into a motion for a summary judgment
• adopting the rule “precluding conversion when the exhibits in question are referred to in, and are central to, the plaintiffs complaint”
• insurance contract attached to a motion to dismiss did not convert that motion into a sumary-judgment motion because the complaint specifically referenced the policy, which was the foundation for the underlying claims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).