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Statement of Claim Must Rely Solely on Complaint
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1993, page 4
Scott Swoboda was a jail detainee in Doniphan County, Kansas. He filed suit under § 1983 over numerous conditions of confinement at the county jail. The district court dismissed the suit pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.12(b)(6), concluding that the lawsuit failed to state a claim upon which relief could be granted. The …
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