California v. Sesslin

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure “make no provision for suits by persons using fictitious names or for anonymous plaintiffs” and, thus, courts allow it only in “certain limited circumstances”
• remanding to the district court “with directions to permit an amended complaint which outlines in clear, direct and understandable terms the precise factual allegations to support each essential element of these claims”
• plaintiff cannot avoid federal government’s sovereign immunity simply by naming individual officers and employees as defendants

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).