Francis v. Giacomelli

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a plaintiff may proceed into the litigation process only when his complaint is justified by both law and fact
• affirming dismissal where claims were not supported by sufficient factual content
• applying the Twombly/Iqbal standard to evaluate the legal sufficiency of pleadings
• first citing Iqbal, 556 U.S. at 679; and then citing and Twombly, 550 U.S. at 557
• upholding dismissal of claim where allegations were “patently untrue”
• rejecting same argument in public employment context

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).