Henniger v. Pinellas County’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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1. “The [Vermont] rule, which applies to all affirmative pleadings, omits the requirement of the former statute that “the facts relied upon” be pleaded, requiring instead “a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief,” language closer to that of former Chancery Rule 3. The new language emphasizes that the rules do not require a specific and detailed statement of the facts which constitute a cause of action, but simply a statement clear’ enough “to give the defendant fair notice of what the plaintiff’s claim is and the grounds on which it rests.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bock v. Gold