CACD Federal Motion to Dismiss

Practitioner's guide to Rule 12(b)(6) in the Central District of California — pleading standards, local rules, and claim-specific issue analysis from a 34-ruling CACD corpus (2024–2026).

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Pleading Standards

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Pleading Standards

Twombly/Iqbal plausibility, Rule 9(b) heightened pleading, and what the court will and won't consider on the face of the complaint.

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CACD Procedure

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Procedure

L.R. 7-3 meet-and-confer and L.R. 7-15 no-oral-argument disposition — what the rules require and what happens when they aren't followed.

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Threshold & Jurisdictional Issues

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Article III Standing — Prospective Relief

Former-relationship standing problem — Bayer/Slayman bar on prospective injunctive relief for ex-customers and ex-employees.

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Forum Non Conveniens and Abstention

Atlantic Marine forum non conveniens (permissive vs. mandatory FSCs) and Brillhart/Wilton abstention for reactive declaratory judgment filings.

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IFP — § 1915 Bad-Faith Dismissal

§ 1915(e)(2)(A) bad-faith dismissal — CACD cross-judge coordination and CV-60 form rigor for IFP and vexatious-litigant filings.

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Civil Rights

§ 1983 — State Action and Monell arrow_forward
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Consumer Protection

CLRA — Omission and Misrepresentation arrow_forward UCL — Three Prongs arrow_forward
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Intellectual Property

Trademark — Rogers Test arrow_forward
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Labor / ERISA

Employment — § 925 Forum-Selection arrow_forward ERISA — Forfeiture Claims arrow_forward
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Securities

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