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Heightened Pleading Requirement For Civil Rights Cases is Void

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El Aemer El Mujaddid

August 29, 2019

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In 1993, the Supreme Court struck down the heightened pleading requirement for civil rights cases. See Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence Coordination Unit, 507 U.S. 163, 168, 113 S.Ct. 1160, 122 L.Ed.2d 517 (1993) (“We think that it is impossible to square the `heightened pleading standard’ . . . with the liberal system of `notice pleading’ set up by the Federal Rules [of Civil Procedure].”);

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