Second Circuit· 3/27/2008

Boykin v. KeyCorp

Citations

521 F.3d 202
70 Fed. R. Serv. 3d 231
2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 6401
2008 WL 817111

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concluding that a plaintiff stated a discrimination claim when she alleged on information and belief that “similarly situated loan applicants who were not in the protected classes . . . were treated more favorably”
stating that “[i]n reviewing a motion to dismiss, [the court] accept[s] the allegations in the complaint as true.”
explaining that, “even after Twombly, dismissal of a pro se claim as insufficiently pleaded is appropriate only in the most unsustainable of cases”
noting that “a pro se complaint, however inartfully pleaded, must be held to less stringent standards than formal pleadings drafted by lawyers”
noting that a pro se complaint, “however inartfully pleaded, must be held to less stringent standards than formal pleadings drafted by lawyers”
explaining that McDonnell Douglas is “an evidentiary standard, not a pleading requirement” (quoting Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N.A., 534 U.S. 506, 510, 122 S.Ct. 992, 152 L.Ed.2d 1 (2002))

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Judges: Winter, Calabresi, Sotomayor

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