rule-8
12 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-823 | William King Moss, III v. Sachem Central Board of Education, et al. | Second Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Pending | civil-rights discrimination-pleading equal-protection rule-8 section-1981 title-vii | 1. Whether a federal court may dismiss a discrimination complaint at the pleading stage by crediting only the plaintiffs alternative theory of unlawfu… | |
| 24A1295 | Anthony E. Ntamere v. Amerihealth Administrators, Inc., et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-06-30 | Presumed Complete | eighth-circuit employment-discrimination pleading-standards prima-facie-case rule-8 title-vii | Whether the Supreme Court should clarify the proper application of pleading standards under Rule 8 and the McDonnell Douglas framework in employment d… | |
| 23-6021 | Sharon Cammille Riddick v. Boston Housing Authority, et al. | First Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights discrimination due-process retaliation rule-12 rule-70 rule-8 rule-9 standing | Whether Fed.R.Civ.P. Rule 12(b)(6), Rule 8(a)(2), Rule 9 are an adequate basis to dismiss the petitioner's complaint? |
| 22-218 | Steven Christopher Knapp v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-procedure complaint-dismissal due-process judicial-bias judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct legal-standards rule-8 standing | Does a judge have an unqualified right to nullify a complaint based on length alone? |
| 22-89 | Michelle M. Newbauer v. Carnival Corporation, dba Carnival Cruise Line | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-07-29 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure eleventh-circuit federal-rules iqbal iqbal-standard notice-pleading pleading pleading-standards rule-8 twombly twombly-standard | Whether the Eleventh Circuit required an unnecessary and unrealistic level of detail in pleading factual allegations supporting a facially plausible c… |
| 21-6867 | Gwendolyn Thorpe v. OneMain Financial | Virginia | 2022-01-14 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment attorney-misconduct case-reversal civil-procedure disbarment disciplinary-action due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment procedural-irregularity rule-8 rule-8-violation | Question not identified |
| 21-6022 | In Re Robert L. Hedrick | 2021-10-21 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | access-to-courts bureau-of-prisons civil-procedure deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment frivolous plausible-claim rule-8 standing | Did the Court Error in ruling that the complaint failed to comply with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a)? | |
| 21-146 | Christine Clifford, as Administrator of the Estate of John Clifford, et al. v. Richard Federman, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-03 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure federal-courts federal-rules-of-civil-procedure pleading-standard pleadings rule-12 rule-8 shotgun-pleading twombly-and-iqbal | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's 'shotgun pleading' rule used to strike pleadings with prejudice directly conflicts with the Twombly and Iqbal standard … |
| 20-1108 | Pontiler S.A. v. OPI Products Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-11 | Denied | Response Waived | amendment civil-procedure contract due-process federal-civil-procedure federal-policy judicial-discretion pleading-standards rule-15 rule-8 | Whether the court of appeals' dismissal of the petitioner's complaint for omitting one nonessential word in describing the respondents' breach of cont… |
| 20-6239 | Abdul Mohammed v. Prairie State Legal Services, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | IFP | amendment civil-procedure complaint-amendment dismissal district-court notice pro-se rule-8 | Whether a District Court can dismiss a Pro Se Plaintiff's complaint under Rule 8 without giving an opportunity to amend the complaint at least once af… |
| 18-1419 | Andrea Hirst, et al. v. SkyWest, Inc., et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-05-13 | Denied | ashcroft-v-iqbal context-specific fair-labor-standards-act iqbal-standard pleading-requirements rule-8 wage-violations workweek workweek-averaging | Must an employee protected by the Fair Labor Standards Act always allege wage violations averaged across a specific seven-day workweek, or may an empl… | |
| 18-9145 | John Patrick Fletcher v. Inmate Bank, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-05-06 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process prisoner-complaint prisoner-rights pro-se rule-8 standard-of-review standing supervisory-power | Whether the lower courts' failure/refusal to follow this Court's standard of review for pro se prisoner complaints under Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a)(2) as he… |