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Rivera v. Sedgwick Claims Management Services
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Ezequiel Rivera asked whether courts may throw out a complaint while discounting its attached exhibits or relying on material outside it without giving him a chance to respond.
- Who it affects
- The denial ends Rivera’s request for Supreme Court review but does not answer the questions he raised.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
The Supreme Court refused to hear his case (denied review) and did not decide those questions.
The dispute concerns what materials a judge may consider when deciding whether a complaint should be thrown out.
Question presented
1. Whether Rule 10(c) permits a district court to disregard or discount exhibits attached to or incorporated into a complaint when assessing plausibility, while relying on other record materials or prior proceedings to support dismissal under Rule 12. 2. Whether Rule 12(d) requires conversion when a district court's Rule 12 dismissal depends on materials outside the pleadings, including prior proceedings or defense-supplied factual characterizations, without excluding those materials or giving the nonmovant a reasonable opportunity to respond. 3. Whether a court of appeals may affirm a Rule 12 dismissal without resolving what materials constituted the pleadings under Rule 10(c) and what materials, if any, triggered Rule 12(d) conversion.
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