Topic: legal conclusion couched as a factual allegation, · Go Syfert
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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 14 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Washington v. Geren.

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1 Washington v. Geren Anchor
dcd · 2009
green “legal conclusion couched as a factual allegation,” 8
2 Jean-Pierre v. Federal Bureau of Prisons
dcd · 2012
green “the supreme court has made clear that . . . there is no requirement 'that procedural rules in ordinary civil litigation should be interpreted so as to excuse mistakes by those who proceed without counsel.” 6

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