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Ashcroft Vs. Iqbal

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  • US Supreme Court
  • May 18, 2009

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  15. Syllabus October Term, 2008 Ashcroft V. Iqbal
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  16. former Attorney General, and petitioner Mueller, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). See Bivens v. Six
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  17. court assumed without discussion that it had jurisdiction and focused on the standard set forth in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly
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  18. s First Amendment claim is actionable in a Bivens action, see Hartman v. Moore
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  19. suits, see, e.g., Monell v. New
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  20. Personnel Administrator of Mass. v. Feeney
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  21. opinion, in which Stevens, Ginsburg, and Breyer, JJ., joined. Breyer, J., filed a dissenting opinion. Ashcroft v. Iqbal
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  22. Opinion of the Court Ashcroft V. Iqbal
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  23. Supreme Court of the United States No. 07-1015 John D. Ashcroft, Former Attorney General, Et Al., Petitioners V. Javaid
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  24. him on charges of fraud in relation to identification documents and conspiracy to defraud the United States. Iqbal v. Hasty
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  25. federal corrections officers. See Bivens v. Six
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  26. relying on Conley v. Gibson
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  27. States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. While that appeal was pending, this Court decided Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly
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  28. Subject-matter jurisdiction cannot be forfeited or waived and should be considered when fairly in doubt. Arbaugh v. Y &
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  29. H Corp. , 546 U. S. 500 , 514 (2006) (citing United States v. Cotton
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  30. Johnson v. Jones
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  31. Ibid. (quoting Cohen v. Beneficial
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  32. Our opinions, however, make clear that appellate jurisdiction is not so strictly confined. In Hartman v. Moore
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  33. a First Amendment retaliation claim. Id., at 257, n. 5. Similarly, two Terms ago in Wilkie v. Robbins
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  34. Swint v. Chambers
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  35. to redress a violation of the equal protection component of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, see Davis v. Passman
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  36. Free Exercise Clause. Indeed, we have declined to extend Bivens to a claim sounding in the First Amendment. Bush v. Lucas
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  37. Hartman , 547 U. S., at 254, n. 2. Cf. Wilson v. Layne
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  38. See Monell v. New
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  39. see also Dunlop v. Munroe
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  40. plaintiff must plead and prove that the defendant acted with discriminatory purpose. Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. Hialeah
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  41. Washington v. Davis
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  42. it demands more than an unadorned, the-defendant-unlawfully-harmed-me accusation. Id ., at 555 (citing Papasan v. Allain
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  43. Copperweld Corp. v. Independence
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  44. and the case is remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion. It is so ordered. Ashcroft v. Iqbal
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  45. Souter, J., Dissenting Ashcroft V. Iqbal
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  46. Ginsburg, and Justice Breyer join, dissenting. This case is here on the uncontested assumption that Bivens v. Six
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  47. liability under Bivens . The majority then misapplies the pleading standard under Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly
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  48. documents, and was placed in pretrial detention at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York. Iqbal v. Hasty
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  49. to that discrimination. Pet. for Cert. 29 (quoting Farmer v. Brennan
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  50. s concession, see, e.g. , United States v. International
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