Langford v. South Florida Golf & C. Club

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• explaining that the court is “not required to accept as true conclusory allegations which are contradicted by documents referred to in the complaint”
• noting that on a 12(b)(1) jurisdictional 8 challenge, a court may also look beyond the complaint and consider extrinsic evidence
• noting that on a 12(b)(1) jurisdictional 10 challenge, a court may also look beyond the complaint and consider extrinsic evidence
• “Where jurisdiction is intertwined with the merits, we must assume the truth of the allegations in a complaint unless controverted by undisputed facts in the record.”
• “[W]e do not necessarily assume the truth of legal conclusions merely because they are cast in the form of factual allegations”
• “A jurisdictional challenge under 1 Rule 12(b)(1) may be made either on the face of the pleadings or by presenting extrinsic 2 evidence.”

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