Speaker v. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

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• holding that the costs of having to defend false allegations is pertinent to the third element
• explaining that determining the legal sufficiency of the complaint requires presuming the factual allegations made in the complaint to be true
• explaining that the Court must accept all factual allegations in the complaint as true and construe them in the light most favorable to the plaintiff
• noting that “[i]n ruling on a 12(b)(6) motion, the Court accepts the factual allegations in the complaint as true and construes them in the light most favorable to the plaintiff’
• explaining that a plaintiff need not prove her case on the pleadings and that the pertinent question is whether the complaint provides enough factual matter to raise a reasonable inference, and thus a plausible claim, for relief
• stating that with regard to Rule 12(b)(6), “it is generally true that the ‘scope of the review must be limited to the four corners of the complaint,’” (quoting St. George v. Pinellas Cnty., 285 F.3d 1334, 1337 (11th Cir. 2002))

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