Hinton v. Corrections Corp. of America

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that courts can consider “documents upon which the plaintiff’s complaint necessarily relies even if the document is produced not by the plaintiff but by the defendant in a motion to dismiss” (internal quotation marks omitted
• explaining that courts may consider “documents ‘upon which the plaintiff’s complaint necessarily relies’ even if the document is produced not by the plaintiff in the complaint but by the defendant in a motion to dismiss”
• explaining that a court may consider documents “upon which the plaintiff’s complaint necessarily relies even if the document is produced . . . by the defendant in a motion to dismiss” (internal quotations and citation omitted)
• noting that on a motion to dismiss, courts may consider “documents upon which the plaintiffs complaint necessarily relies even if the document is produced not by the plaintiff in the complaint but by the defendant in a motion to dismiss” (internal quotations omitted)
• considering contract attached to motion to dismiss, noting that “[b]y pleading that the defendant had the duty to provide him with eye treatment and care, the plaintiffs complaint necessarily rests on the contract, although it did not incorporate the contract.”
• “In deciding a motion brought under Rule 12(b)(6), a court is restricted from considering matters ‘outside’ the pleadings.” (quoting Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(d)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).