Fostvedt v. United States, Internal Revenue Service

How courts have described this case

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• discussing the importance of clear pleadings to allow defendants to effectively conduct discovery and defend themselves
• finding the disclosure of “such minimal, ‘nonsensitive’ facts as the taxpayer’s name” during an investigation was necessary
• discussing the importance of clear pleadings to allow defendants to effectively conduct discovery and defend 31 themselves
• holding plaintiff's complaint to the Rule 8(a) pleading standard
• holding plaintiff’s complaint to the Rule 8(a) pleading standard
• “Based on [the plaintiff’s] conclusory, nebulous claim, the United States can have no way of knowing what discovery it should produce.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).