Tele-Communications of Key West, Inc. v. United States of America

How courts have described this case

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• holding that before converting a motion to dismiss to a motion to summary judgment, the reviewing court “must assure itself that summary judgment would be fair to both parties”
• requiring court to “assure itself that summary judgment treatment would be fair to both parties” before converting motion to dismiss to motion for summary judgment
• requiring court to “assure itself that summary judgment treatment would be fair to both parties” before converting motion to dismiss to motion for summary judgment
• “Consideration of external materials . . . cannot properly take place under a dismissal for failure to state a claim.”
• “[T]he reviewing court must assure itself that summary judgment treatment would be fair to both parties in that the procedural requirements of the applicable rules were observed.”
• \[T]he reviewing court must assure itself that summary judgment treatment would be fair to both parties in that the procedural requirements of the applicable rules were observed.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).