Conley v. Gibson

Conley v. Gibson
Conley v. Gibson
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Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 21, 1957
Decided November 18, 1957
Full case name Conley v. Gibson
Citations 355 U.S. 41 (more)
78 S. Ct. 99; 2 L. Ed. 2d 80; 9 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 439; 33 Lab. Cas. (CCH) P71,077; 1 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) P9656; 41 L.R.R.M. 2089
Prior history 229 F.2d 436 (reversed)
Holding
General allegations of discrimination were sufficient to fulfill the Rule 8 requirement of a "short plain statement."
Court membership
Case opinions
Majority Black, joined by a unanimous Court
Laws applied
Railway Labor Act; Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Overruled by
Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly

Conley v. Gibson, 355 U.S. 41 (1957), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States that provided a basis for a broad reading of the "short plain statement" requirement for pleading under Rule 8 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.[1]

Contents

Opinion of the Court

The case arose from an alleged wrongful discharge of African-American employees from a railroad company and unequal protection from the union. The court ruled that general allegations of discrimination were sufficient to fulfill the Rule 8 requirement of a "short plain statement" because liberal discovery guidelines allowed the complaint to gain much more specificity before trial. The kind of pleading allowed by Conley was known as "notice pleading."[2]

Subsequent developments

In 2007, the United States Supreme Court overruled Conley, creating a new, stricter standard of a pleading's required specificity. Under the standard the Court set forth in Conley, a complaint need only state facts which make it "conceivable" that it could prove its legal claims -- that is, that a court could only dismiss a claim if it appeared, beyond a doubt, that the plaintiff would be able to prove "no set of facts" in support of her claim that would entitle her to relief. In Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, the court adopted a more strict, "plausibility" standard, requiring in this case "enough fact[s] to raise a reasonable expectation that discovery will reveal evidence of illegal agreement." The Twombly reading was upheld in Ashcroft v. Iqbal in 2009.

See also

References

  1. ^ Yeazell, S.C. Civil Procedure, Seventh Edition. Aspen Publishers, New York, NY: 2008, p. 358
  2. ^ Yeazell, p. 358

External links

  • Text of Conley v. Gibson, 355 U.S. 41 (1957) is available from: Justia · Findlaw

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