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LEATHERMAN v. TARRANT COUNTY NARCOTICS INTELLIGENCE AND COORDINATION UNIT

No. 91-1657.

507 U.S. 163 (1993)

LEATHERMAN et al. v. TARRANT COUNTY NARCOTICS INTELLIGENCE AND COORDINATION UNIT et al.

United States Supreme Court.

Decided March 3, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Gladden argued the cause pro hac vice for petitioners. With him on the briefs was Don Gladden.

Brett A. Ringle argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief for respondents Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit et al. was Dixon W. Holman. Kevin J. Keith filed a brief for respondent City of Grapevine, Texas, and Tim G. Sralla and Wayne K. Olson filed a brief for respondent City of Lake Worth, Texas.*

Rehnquist, C. J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court.

Chief Justice Rehnquist delivered the opinion of the Court.

We granted certiorari to decide whether a federal court may apply a "heightened pleading standard"—more stringent than the usual pleading requirements of Rule 8(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure—in civil rights cases alleging municipal liability under Rev. Stat. § 1979, 42 U. S. C. § 1983. We hold it may not.

We review here a decision granting a motion to dismiss,...

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