Carter v. Ford Motor Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• requiring “fair notice” of the nature and grounds of a claim
• “Sometimes, as we have recognized, a claim raised in response to a summary judgment motion provides sufficient notice to the opposing party.” (citations omitted)
• “As at the initial pleading stage, the question remains [at the summary judgment stage] whether [the defendant] had adequate notice of the charges it was defending.”
• “the notice inquiry necessarily proceeds on a case-by-case basis. Sometimes, as we have recognized, a claim raised in response to a summary judgment motion provides sufficient notice to the opposing party.”
• “A court must construe pleadings . . . ‘liberally in order to prevent errors in draftsmanship from barring justice to litigants.’” (quoting Ritchie v. United Mine Workers of Am., 410 F.2d 827, 833 (6th Cir. 1969))
• “Had the challenge to the sufficiency of her pleading arisen in the context of a Rule 12(b)(6) motion, the district court would have applied the ‘extremely modest standard’ of notice pleading, which direct[] courts to construe pleading[s] liberally.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).