Garcia-Catalan v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “there need not be a one-to-one relationship between any single allegation and a necessary element of the cause of action”
• affording latitude to plaintiffs in pleading their claims when defendant government agency controlled relevant documents.
• overturning dismissal upon concluding that the complaint as a whole pled “sufficient facts to state a facially plausible legal claim”
• In determining whether the complaint meets the plausibility standard, the court need not credit conclusory legal allegations
• “[T]he court must distinguish the complaint’s factual allegations (which must be accepted as true) from its conclusory legal allegations (which need not be credited).” (quotation omitted)
• more latitude is appropriate in cases where “it cannot reasonably be expected that the [plaintiff], without the benefit of discovery, would have any information about” the event that gave rise to the alleged injury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).