Howard L. Jackson v. Marion County

How courts have described this case

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• finding that allegations “in the complaint are binding admissions, and admissions can of course admit the admitter to the exit of the federal courthouse.”
• explaining that in the absence of direct evidence, “a single act of misconduct” does not support an inference that an unconstitutional policy exists
• noting that “a plaintiff can plead himself out of court by alleging facts which show that he has no claim, even though he was not required to allege those facts”
• “Leatherman makes clear that the federal courts are not to interpolate a requirement of fact pleading into the federal rules.”
• “[P]roof of a single act of misconduct will not suffice; for it is the series that lays the premise of the system of inference.”
• “[A] plaintiff can plead himself out of court by alleging facts which show that he has no claim, even though he was not required to allege those facts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).