Motion to strike

U.S. federal courts[]

Rule 12(f) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provides that

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the court may order stricken from any pleading any insufficient defense or any redundant, immaterial, impertinent, or scandalous matter.

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"Immaterial matter is that which has no essential or important relationship to the claim of relief" and "[i]mpertinent matter consists of statements that do not pertain, and are not necessary, to the issues in question."^[1]

"The function of a 12(f) motion to strike is to avoid the expenditure of time and money that must arise from litigatin spurious issues by dispensing with those issues prior to trial."^[2]

References[]

↑ Fantasy, Inc. v. Fogerty, 984 F.2d 1524, 1527 (9th Cir. 1993) (full-text) (internal citations omitted), rev'd on other grounds, 510 U.S. 517 (1994) (full-text).
↑ Sidney-Vinstein v. A.H. Robins Co., 697 F.2d 880, 885 (9th Cir. 1983) (full-text).

[1] Fantasy, Inc. v. Fogerty, 984 F.2d 1524, 1527 (9th Cir. 1993) (full-text) (internal citations omitted), rev'd on other grounds, 510 U.S. 517 (1994) (full-text).

[2] Sidney-Vinstein v. A.H. Robins Co., 697 F.2d 880, 885 (9th Cir. 1983) (full-text).

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