Legal Opinion
Valerie Bennett v. Marie Schmidt
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 31, 1998No. 97-4198PublishedCited by 384 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
The district court dismissed this employment-discrimination case, 1997 WL 760495, 1997 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 19034, ruling that, at 12 “repetitious, rambling, and disorganized” pages, the complaint is not “a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief’. Fed.R.Civ.P. 8(a)(2). Because the complaint did not lay out facts that would be essential to support a decision for plaintiff on the merits, the district judge also dismissed it under Fed. R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6). The tension between these two reasons—which imply that the complaint is…
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