SM Kids, LLC v. Google LLC

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that on a “motion under Rule 12(b)(1)[,] [courts] may also rely on evidence beyond the pleadings”
• stating that a litigant’s “threshold” argument that an assignment is not valid does not call into question the “justiciability of the dispute” but rather raises the issue of whether the plaintiff states a claim for relief
• “[F]ederal courts should not treat statutory provisions as jurisdictional thresholds when they do not speak in jurisdictional terms.”
• the Second Circuit has cautioned against attempts to conflate whether the plaintiff has standing with whether the plaintiff states a claim
• “The Supreme Court has confirmed that a challenge does not implicate Article III standing when it ‘simply presents a straightforward issue of contract interpretation.’”
• “We have cautioned against arguments that would essentially collapse the standing inquiry into the merits . . . .” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).