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Exactly!
Stop it!
And so a motion to dismiss is properonly if the plaintiff can prove no setof facts to support her claim.
What about Iqbal v. Ashcroft?
Well, that's the exceptionthat proves the rule.
No it isn't.
Come again?
No, it is not the exception that provesthe rule. It's just an exception.
The only thing it proves is that you'retrying to refute something you can'texplain with a misused idiom insteadof logical reasoning.
But irregardless, for all intensivepurposes, that just begs thequestion of why you're literallyhoeing this formalistic line.
No it doesn't--
Perhaps ...
You can't--
That's not--
Don't make me get stabby.
I know. That's what I was just saying.
Cite as: Andrew Fong, Ill Law Geek Cull, T ORT BUNNIES (June 21, 2010), http://tortbunnies.com/39.html.
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