Legal Opinion
A.G. Ex Rel. Maddox v. Elsevier, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 16, 2013No. 20-1077PublishedCited by 317 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This is a curious case in which the plaintiffs, unsuccessful medical malpractice suitors, seek damages against the authors and publisher of a case report, introduced into evidence in the malpractice trials, that appeared in a peer-reviewed obstetrical journal. Acting on the defendants’ motions to dismiss, see Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6), the district court concluded that the plaintiffs’ complaint stumbled on the plausibility threshold. See Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 678, 129 S.Ct. 1937, 173 L.Ed.2d 868 (2009); Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 556, 127 S.Ct. 1955,…
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