Benavides v. Stephens

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Courts are not bound to accept as true a legal conclusion couched as a factual allegation.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “Courts are not bound to accept as true a legal conclusion couched as a factual allegation.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• when evaluating a qualified immunity defense, “the district court must consider the actions of each individual defendant.”
• “[c]ourts are not bound to accept as true a legal conclusion couched as a factual allegation . . . [the motion to dismiss standard] demands more than an unadorned, the defendant-unlawfully-harmed-me accusation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).