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Joe Marsh, Leroy Owens v. Butler County, Alabama, the Butler County Commission

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Abrogated
Court
Eleventh Circuit
Citation
268 F.3d 1014
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
101 of 101
Citing cases (total)
602
Treatment dates
2007
Abrogated
A reviewed court treats this case as abrogated by later authority. The pleading standard in Joe Marsh, Leroy Owens v. Butler County, Alabama, the Butler County Commission was abrogated by Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly. All 101 flagged citations have been read.
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Twombly displaced the earlier Conley standard quoted in this decision; the Eleventh Circuit later described the abrogation as occurring on other grounds. The decision's separate qualified immunity holdings are unaffected. The partial abrogation is listed below.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

602 later cases cite Joe Marsh, Leroy Owens v. Butler County, Alabama, the Butler County Commission; 101 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Abrogated

  • Twombly rejected the Conley “no set of facts” pleading standard quoted in Marsh.

    Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    The phrase is best forgotten as an incomplete, negative gloss on an accepted pleading standard: once a claim has been stated adequately, it may be supported by showing any set of facts consistent with the allegations in the complaint.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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