United States of America by and Through Joseph E. Garst v. Lockheed-Martin Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a court could not dismiss a complaint merely because it contains repetitious and irrelevant matter, as “surplus-age in a complaint can be ignored”
• holding that Rule 8 “requires parties to make their pleadings straightforward, so that judges and adverse parties need not try to fish a gold coin from a bucket of mud”
• holding that Rule 8 “requires parties to make their pleadings straightforward, so that judges and adverse parties need not try to fish a gold coin from a bucket of mud”
• holding that Fed. R. Civ. P. 8 requires parties to “make their pleadings straightforward, so that judges and adverse parties need not try to fish a gold coin from a bucket of mud”
• holding that a complaint must provide notice of “the principal contested matters”
• observing that “[l]ength may make a complaint unintelligible, by scattering and concealing in a morass of irrelevancies the few allegations that matter”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).