{"id":1913,"date":"2024-07-23T00:04:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T00:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/11th-circuit-dismissal-ruling-could-impact-how-plaintiffs-suits-are-filed\/"},"modified":"2024-07-23T00:04:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T00:04:58","slug":"11th-circuit-dismissal-ruling-could-impact-how-plaintiffs-suits-are-filed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/11th-circuit-dismissal-ruling-could-impact-how-plaintiffs-suits-are-filed\/","title":{"rendered":"11th Circuit Dismissal Ruling Could Impact How Plaintiffs&#8217; Suits Are Filed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/media.ca11.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/pub\/files\/202211359.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ruling<\/a> by a three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit last week could have a significant impact on future trial litigation in Georgia, Florida and Alabama, as courts may consider documents not originally referenced in complaints in requests to dismiss a case with prejudice, one litigator explained.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the Eleventh Circuit\u2019s July 12 opinion, federal trial courts have required that a document be included or attached to the plaintiff\u2019s complaint. However, the court\u2019s recent opinion, written by Judge Elizabeth Branch, eschewed that in dismissing a civil rights case that some believe could set a precedent for more frequent dismissals of cases before summary judgment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ruling by a three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit last week could have a significant impact on future trial litigation in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2659,610,575,749,2476,397,686,558],"class_list":["post-1913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-11th","tag-circuit","tag-dismissal","tag-filed","tag-impact","tag-plaintiffs","tag-ruling","tag-suits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}