Vivian J. Scheid v. Fanny Farmer Candy Shops, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a “complaint must contain either direct or inferential allegations . . . to sustain a recovery under some viable legal theory”
• holding that Amore than bare assertions of legal conclusions is ordinarily required to satisfy federal notice pleading requirements.@
• providing that all complaints must contain either direct or inferential allegations respecting all material elements of some viable legal theory to satisfy federal notice pleading requirements
• noting that “when a complaint omits facts that, if they existed, would clearly dominate the case, it seems fair to assume that those facts do not exist”
• noting that “when a complaint omits facts that, if they existed, would clearly dominate the case, it seems fair to assume that those facts do not exist”
• providing that “when a complaint omits facts that, if they existed, would clearly dominate the case, it seems fair to assume that those facts do not exist” (citation omitted)

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