Ronald Funk v. Stryker Corporation

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• holding that plaintiff may not rely on res ipsa loquitur to make manufacturing defect claim
• holding that in deciding 12(b)(6) motion, district court could take judicial notice of FDA’s records concerning the approval process for the subject medical device.
• holding that the plaintiff failed to state a manufacturing defect claim because the complaint “d[id] not specify the manufacturing defect,” notwithstanding the plaintiff’s invocation of the res ipsa loquitor doctrine
• holding that the court could take judicial notice of a relevant FDA publication
• holding that the court could take judicial notice of a relevant FDA publication
• holding that, in resolving a Rule 12(b)(6) motion, a district court can take “appropriate judicial notice of publicly-available documents and transcripts . . . , which were matters of public record directly relevant to the issue at hand”

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