Abraham Gladney, Jr. v. Pendleton Correctional Facility and Indiana Department of Corrections

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• holding that suit may be dismissed where facts alleged in complaint are “so nutty (‘delusional’ is the polite word) that they’re unbelievable”
• holding that courts need not credit assertions that are “so nutty (‘delusional’ is the polite word) that they’re unbelievable”
• holding that suit may be dismissed where facts alleged in complaint are “so nutty (‘delusional’ is the polite - 8 - word) that they’re unbelievable, even though there has been no evidentiary hearing to determine their truth or falsity”
• explaining that courts need not credit assertions that are “so nutty (‘delusional’ is the polite word) that they’re unbelievable”
• explaining that a suit should be dismissed when the factual allegations are incredible without the need for an evidentiary hearing to determine the truth or falsity of the allegations
• noting that allegations are factually frivolous if they are \unbelievable\ or \incredible\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).