Opinion

Sprewell v. Golden State Warriors

  • 275 F.3d 1187
  • 2001 U.S. App. LEXIS 28424
  • 2001 WL 1658795
Court
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Filed
Dec 28, 2001
Status
Published
On the bench
Nelson, Thompson, Trott
Cited by
474 cases
Authority
More cited than 97.5%

holding the 4 court need not “accept as true allegations that contradict matters properly subject to judicial notice 5 or by exhibit.”

How later courts described this case

  • holding the 4 court need not “accept as true allegations that contradict matters properly subject to judicial notice 5 or by exhibit.”
  • noting that a plaintiff can “plead himself out of a claim by including . . . details contrary to his claims.”
  • “The court need not, 16 however, accept as true allegations that contradict matters properly subject to judicial notice or by 17 exhibit. [citation] Nor is the court required to accept as true allegations that are merely 18 conclusory, unwarranted deductions of fact, or unreasonable inferences.”
  • “Nor is the court required 22 10 Latin term meaning “in good faith,” made in good faith, without fraud or deceit, sincere, genuine. BONA FIDE, 23 Black’s Law Dictionary (11th ed. 2019). 24 AMENDED ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS 1 to accept as true allegations that are merely conclusory. . . .”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

ORDER

The Opinion filed September 14, 2001, is amended as follows:

At Slip Op. 13304-13305 [ 266 F.3d 979 , 989], in the sentence which begins “The arbitration award effectively and persuasively fleshes out the fact ... ”, delete the portion of the sentence that reads, “The arbitration award effectively and persuasively fleshes out the fact that the actions taken by the NBA and the Warriors were motivated solely by Sprewell’s misconduct and were not, as Sprewell states,” and substitute “The uncontested facts set forth in the arbitration award effectively and persuasively rebut the conclusory allegations made by Sprewell, that the actions taken by the NBA and the Warriors were” The sentence would then read:

The uncontested facts set forth in the arbitration award effectively and persuasively rebut the conclusory allegations made by Sprewell, that the actions taken by the NBA and the Warriors were the product of America’s “fear of the black man’s physicality and rage, and the fear and resentment of the black man’s success, along with the corresponding anger that the black man is not grateful for what he has been ‘given.’ ”

With these amendments, the panel as constituted above has voted to deny appellees, National Basketball Association’s, and appellant, Latrell Sprewell’s, petitions for rehearing. Judge Trott has voted to deny the petitions for rehearing en bane, and Judges D.W. Nelson and Thompson so recommend. The full court has been advised of the suggestions for rehearing en banc and no judge of the court has requested a vote on it. Fed. RApp. P. 35(b).

*1189 The petitions for rehearing and the petitions for rehearing en banc are DENIED.

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