Valerie Bennett v. Marie Schmidt

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “I was turned down for a job because of my race” is all a plaintiff must say in order to state a claim for discrimination
• explaining that \[c]omplaints need not plead law or match facts to every element of a legal theory\
• noting that a complaint would satisfy Rule 8(a) if it alleged “I was turned down for a job because of my race”
• declaring that plaintiffs should not be “larding their complaints with facts and legal theories”
• declaring that plaintiffs should not be “larding their complaints with facts and legal theories”
• instructing district courts to “keep the case moving” rather than “lavish[ ] attention on the complaint until the plaintiff gets it just right”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).