GILMORE

v.

KOEHLER, WARDEN

Citator

Cited By (20 total)

• Maud Lee Thornbrough, Jr. v. Columbus & Greenville R.R. Co., 760 F.2d 633 (5th Cir. 1985)
  …ained replaced him) with Stendebach v. CPC Int'l, Inc., 691 F. 2d 735, 738 (5th Cir.1982) (directed verdict affirmed on ground that employee’s evidence was, "at best, a mere scintilla which is insufficient to present a jury question”), cert. denied, 461 U.S. 944, 103 S.Ct. 2122, 77 L.Ed.2d 1302 (1983) and Baldwin v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., 667 F. 2d 458 (5th Cir.1982) (summary judgment affirmed in reduction-in-force case on ground that employee presented no statistical or direct evidence of intentional discri…
• THE Dartmouth Review v. Dartmouth Coll., 889 F.2d 13 (1st Cir. 1989)
  …on the one hand, against the repeated demands by our and other courts that there be more than conclusory allegations, even in civil rights eases. Dewey v. University of New Hampshire, 694 F. 2d 1, 3 (1st Cir.1982) (citation omitted), cert. denied, 461 U.S. 944, 103 S.Ct. 2121, 77 L.Ed.2d 1301 (1983). Gauzy generalities, unsupported conclusions, subjective characterizations, and problematic suppositions can sprout as easily as crabgrass in an imaginative litigant’s (or lawyer’s) word processor. Therefore,…
• Correa-Martinez v. Arrillaga-Belendez, 903 F.2d 49 (1st Cir. 1990)
  …*53] does not entitle a plaintiff to rest on “subjective characterizations” or conclusory descriptions of “a general scenario which could be dominated by unpleaded facts.” Dewey v. Univ. of New Hampshire, 694 F. 2d 1, 3 (1st Cir.1982), cert. denied, 461 U.S. 944, 103 S.Ct. 2121, 77 L.Ed.2d 1301 (1983). We understand that, for pleading purposes, the dividing line between sufficient facts and insufficient conclusions “is often blurred.” Dartmouth Review, 889 F. 2d at 16. But the line must be plotted: It is o…