· 12/31/2008
Anderson v. US DEPT. OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEV.
Citations
- 554 F.3d 525
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- “[A plaintiff] must do more than name laws that may have been violated, [he] must also allege facts regarding what conduct violated those laws.”
- trial court abused discretion certifying class where plaintiffs’ claims were “based on a totally different course of conduct” than those pleaded in the complaint
- “[D]efendants in all lawsuits must be given notice of the specific claims against them.” (citing FED. R. CIV. P. 8(a)(2))
- “[B]y defining the class based on” factual allegations not mentioned in the complaint, “the district court changed the nature of the lawsuit and rendered the complaint inadequate”
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Judges: Wiener, Garza, and Demoss, Circuit Judges
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