pleading-rules
2 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-352 | Jasmine Younge v. Fulton Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, Georgia | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-24 | Pending | Response Requested | affirmative-defense civil-procedure federal-rules judicial-discretion pleading-rules summary-judgment | Whether a defendant may assert an affirmative defense in a summary judgment motion without previously pleading it in an answer, despite Rule 8(c)(1) a… |
| 24-5877 | Holston Banks, III v. John H. Spence | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights district-court eighth-amendment judicial-error legal-framing pleading-rules | Did the district court commit judicial error by dismissing a complaint based on legal framing when the factual allegations supported an Eighth Amendme… |