Opinion ID: 3049370
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Heading: Final Proceedings

Text: On August 31, 2009, Plaintiff Speaker filed an Amended Complaint, which we recounted above. On September 17, 2009, Defendant CDC filed a motion to dismiss or, in the alternative, a motion for partial summary judgment. Along with its motion to dismiss, the CDC attached another “statement of material facts about which there is no dispute,” in addition to essentially the same exhibits that were attached to its earlier motion for summary judgment. Among the new exhibits, however, were videos of the May 29 and May 30, 2007 CDC press conferences, which reflect the CDC’s statements recited above.7 In a November 23, 2009 order, the district court granted the CDC’s motion to dismiss Speaker’s Amended Complaint under Rule 12(b)(6) for failure to state a claim. The court denied the CDC’s other motions as moot. Speaker v. U.S. HHS CDC, 680 F. Supp. 2d 1359, 1369-70 (N.D. Ga. 2009). Speaker timely appealed. 7 Other new exhibits were labeled as “July 3, 2007 Letter to Speaker” (Exhibit N); “July 13, 2007 HHS Memorandum re Disclosure of XDR Patient’s Identity” (Exhibit P); and “July 11, 2007 Letter to Speaker” (Exhibit R). The CDC also filed additional declarations authenticating the exhibits. 12