Manzarek v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a court granting a motion to dismiss should permit leave to amend unless it would be clearly futile
• holding that on a motion to dismiss courts must take the “factual allegations in the complaint as true and construe the pleadings in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party.”
• ruling court must “accept factual allegations 4 Plaintiffs’ allegations repeatedly refers to secret video recordings. (Dkt. 2 at ¶¶ 22, 28, 31, 41, 45
• noting that courts are not required to accept as true conclusory allegations contradicted by the relevant documents referenced in the complaint
• noting that on a motion to dismiss, the district court may “generally consider only allegations contained in the pleadings, exhibits attached to the complaint, and matters properly subject to judicial notice”
• noting that granting dismissal without leave to amend is improper “unless it is clear, upon de novo review, that the complaint could not be saved by any amendment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).