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Eleventh Circuit· 7/24/1997

Cramer v. State of Florida

Citations

  • 117 F.3d 1258
  • 7 Am. Disabilities Cas. (BNA) 115
  • 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 18941

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that a complaint was a “shotgun pleading” when it was “so disorganized and ambiguous that it is almost impossible to discern precisely what it is that these appellants are claiming.”
  • explaining that shotgun pleadings are “altogether unacceptable” because they “exact an intolerable toll on the trial court’s docket”
  • noting that “[s]hotgun pleadings . . . exact an intolerable toll on the trial court’s docket”
  • noting that \shotgun pleadings ... exact an intolerable toll on the trial court's docket\
  • describing the complaint at issue as “a rambling 'shotgun' pleading that is so disorganized and ambiguous that it is almost impossible to discern precisely what it is that these appellants are claiming”
  • discerning a shotgun pleading where the complaint was “so disorganized and ambiguous that it [wa]s almost impossible to discern precisely what . . . the[] appellants [we]re claiming”

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Judges: Tjoflat, Cox, Vining

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Cites

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