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  2. Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill - Wikipedia

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    The District Court dismissed the suit for failure to state a claim on which relief could be granted, holding that because the very statute that created the property right in continued employment also specified the procedures for discharge, and because those procedures were followed, Loudermill was, by definition, afforded all the process due ...

  3. Demurrer - Wikipedia

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    A majority of U.S. states (approximately 35) have adopted civil procedure rules modeled after the Federal Rules and therefore have abolished the demurrer and replaced it with the motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. In Ohio, for example, demurrers are specifically prohibited. [2]

  4. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure - Wikipedia

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    failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted; and failure to join a party under Rule 19 The Rule 12(b)(6) motion, which replaced the common law demurrer , is how lawsuits with insufficient legal theories underlying their cause of action are dismissed from court.

  5. Cause of action - Wikipedia

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    For example, for a claim of negligence, the elements are: the (existence of a) duty, breach (of that duty), proximate cause (by that breach), and damages. If a complaint does not allege facts sufficient to support every element of a claim, the court, upon motion by the opposing party, may dismiss the complaint for failure to state a claim for ...

  6. Sunoco v. Honolulu - Wikipedia

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    Sunoco v. Honolulu & Shell v.Honolulu (Docket 23-947 & 23-952) is a case pending certiorari before the Supreme Court of the United States. [1] It is a tort law case related to whether federal law prohibits state-law claims for compensation for the effects that Greenhouse-gas emissions has on global climate.

  7. California Motor Transport Co. v. Trucking Unlimited - Wikipedia

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    The initial action in the federal District Court was dismissed for "failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted". [2] This is a pretrial motion available under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure which means that, even if everything the plaintiffs said is true, the court agrees that there is no breach of any duty owed to the ...

  8. Motion (legal) - Wikipedia

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    A "motion to dismiss" asks the court to decide that a claim, even if true as stated, is not one for which the law offers a legal remedy.As an example, a claim that the defendant failed to greet the plaintiff while passing the latter on the street, insofar as no legal duty to do so may exist, would be dismissed for failure to state a valid claim: the court must assume the truth of the factual ...

  9. United States ex rel. Eisenstein v. City of New York - Wikipedia

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    Where the government does not intervene, the False Claims Act provides the government a right to receive copies of the parties' pleadings and deposition transcripts (rights usually reserved for parties to a suit). The district court dismissed Eisenstein's claim for failure to state a claim and entered final judgment in favor of the City of New ...