Legal Opinion
Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 3, 1993No. 91-1657PublishedCited by 2,911 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
We granted certiorari to decide whether a federal court may apply a “heightened pleading standard” — more stringent than the usual pleading requirements of Rule 8(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure — in civil rights cases alleging municipal liability under Rev. Stat. § 1979, 42 U. S. C. § 1983. We hold it may not.
We review here a decision granting a motion to dismiss, and therefore must accept as true all the factual allegations in the complaint. See United States v. Gaubert, 499 U. S. 315, 327 (1991). This action arose out of two separate incidents involving the execution of search…
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