Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a heightened standard of pleading, judicially created, is not permitted in civil rights cases
• holding that Monell claims are not subject to a heightened pleading standard
• noting that factual allegations in complaint must be accepted as true on motion to dismiss
• holding that the fact that Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b
• indicating that the doctrine of expressio unius est exclusio alterius operates to prevent courts from expanding Rule 9(b)'s stringent pleading requirements to other causes of action
• indicating that “federal courts and litigants must rely on summary judgment and control of discovery to weed out un-meritorious claims sooner rather than later”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).