Vazquez Commercial Contracting, LLC

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the plaintiffs “pleaded” a plausible claim because of the favorable inferences afforded under a Rule 12(b)(6) analysis but had not “demonstrated a likelihood of success on the merits”
• affirming dismissal of complaint when “a speculative leap, not a reasonable inference” was required to move from sparse allegations to the plaintiff’s conspiracy claim
• plaintiffs “have never requested leave to amend,” so “[t]hey . . . waived any right to replead”
• “[u]nlike most constitutional deprivations, there is just one way to violate the Contracts Clause: legislative action . . . Contracts Clause liability therefore presupposes legislative power.”
• plaintiffs pled a “plausible” claim “because of the favorable inferences we afford[ed] to them under a Rule 12(b)(6) analysis,” but plaintiffs had not “demonstrated a likelihood of success on the merits”
• describing “conspiracy theory” of section 1983 liability for private actors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).