Riley v. Vilsack

OPINION and ORDER

BARBARA B. CRABB, District Judge.

For 50 years, Conley v. Gibson, 355 U.S. 41, 78 S.Ct. 99, 2 L.Ed.2d 80 (1957), provided the standard for determining the legal sufficiency of a complaint in federal court under Fed.R.Civ.P. 8. Any student of federal civil procedure is familiar with the famous passage from Conley, repeated in countless court decisions over the years: “a complaint should not be dismissed for failure to state a claim unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.” Id. at…