Legal Opinion
Maryland Staffing Services, Inc. v. Manpower, Inc.
District Court, E.D. Wisconsin
Decided August 19, 1996No. 95-C-1315PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
WARREN, District Judge.
This case involves a commercial dispute over the appropriate rates of insurance to be charged by a franchisor to a franchisee. In crafting their lawsuit against the defendants, the plaintiffs have chosen the shotgun approach; they have filed an 84r-page, 231-paragraph, nineteen-count complaint. A rifle would have provided a better model. See Gagan v. American Cablevision, Inc., 77 F.3d 951, 955 (7th Cir.1996). The defendants might have moved to dismiss the entire prolix complaint on the ground that it fails to include a “short and plain statement of…
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