Marucci Sports, LLC v. National Collegiate Athletic Ass'n

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• holding that futility is a substantial reason to deny leave to amend
• instructing that the “pivotal question is whether the concerted action was a result of an agreement . . . to unreasonably restrain trade.”
• explaining that when the complaint “presents various conclusory allegations that support one of many inferential possibilities,” it falls short of Twombly’s pleading standards.
• finding that “denying a motion to amend is not an abuse of discretion if 11 allowing an amendment would be futile” and “[a]n amendment is futile if it would fail to survive a Rule 12(b)(6) motion”
• “Denying a motion to amend is not an abuse of discretion if allowing an amendment would be futile.”
• “Denying a motion to amend is not an abuse of discretion if allowing an amendment would be futile.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).