Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6)
Defenses and Objections — Failure to State a Claim
United States — Federal Courts · Federal Rule · Current
Source · Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
See also: ashcroft-v-iqbal
IV. Court RulesCurrent
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Court Rules
Federal and state rules of procedure, evidence, and local practice.
§ I
Introduction
Scope of the Division
Court Rules
168 catalogued
The Division of Court Rules holds the procedural texts that govern the conduct of litigation. Federal rules are catalogued with their advisory committee notes; local rules are preserved by court.
§ II
What Belongs Here
The materials catalogued in this division.
A division collects materials of a single kind. The following are the working classes of record.
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Federal Rules of Civil and Appellate Procedure
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Federal Rules of Evidence and Criminal Procedure
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State rules of civil procedure and local court rules of record
§ III
Research Notes
How the division is read.
Notes for the reader on how the materials are catalogued and consulted.
- 01
A rule is read with its advisory committee note and the cases that construe it.
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Local rules are catalogued by court and reviewed against the controlling federal or state rule.
§ IV
Featured Authorities
A working selection from the division.
The following are representative entries. They have been catalogued and reviewed; the longer record opens by catalogue search.
Fed. R. Civ. P. 56
Summary Judgment
United States — Federal Courts · Federal Rule · Current
Source · Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
IV. Court RulesCurrentFed. R. Evid. 401
Test for Relevant Evidence
United States — Federal Courts · Federal Rule · Current
Source · Federal Rules of Evidence
IV. Court RulesCurrent
§ V
Related Collections
Subjects that draw upon this division.
The following Research Collections gather authority from this division alongside materials from elsewhere in the catalogue.
Collection
Foreclosure
Judicial and non-judicial foreclosure, with the rules of procedure and the recorded record.
Draws from · Statutes · Court Rules · Forms
Collection
Civil Procedure
The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the controlling decisions that construe them.
Draws from · Court Rules · Judicial Opinions · Practice Manuals
§ VI
Related Publications
Volumes drawn from, or that draw from, this division.
The Society's press supplies, and is supplied by, the working record of the Library.
§ VII
Related Schools
Departments that read this division.
The Schools below draw their reading from this division. Each enters the Library by way of its own bibliography.
§ VIII
Bibliographic Note
How this division is cited.
Court rules are cited by abbreviation, rule number, and subdivision.
Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6)
§ IX
Within the Library
Divisions that read alongside this one.
Authority does not respect divisional boundaries. The following divisions are consulted together with this one.
§ X
Authority Discovery
Browse this division by metadata.
These indexes are alternative metadata views of the same canonical authority records. They are not separate collections or archives.
Jurisdictions
Years
Authority Types
Admission
Read the Court Rules division alongside the founding cohort.
Founding Members enter every School of the Academy and every division of the Library. Tuition and dues are not yet open.
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