Lavera Granetha Ashanti v. City of Golden Valley

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• concluding that a document is necessarily embraced by the pleadings if its contents are alleged in the complaint and the parties do not question the document’s authenticity
• concluding that a document is necessarily embraced by the pleadings if its contents are alleged in the complaint and the parties do not question the document’s authenticity
• concluding that district court properly treated Rule 12(b)(6) motion as motion for summary judgment because letter, which was not alleged in the complaint, constituted matter outside the pleadings
• holding that such documents may be considered on a 12(b)(6) motion
• noting that documents necessarily embraced are those whose contents are alleged in a complaint, whose authenticity no party questions, but which are not physically attached to the pleading
• explaining that a court can consider documents “necessarily embraced by the pleadings, includ[ing] documents whose contents are alleged in a complaint and whose authenticity no party questions, but which are not physically attached to the pleading”

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