What is the test for dismissing an artfully drawn complaint?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Maciel v. Ransdell, 106 F.3d 408 (9th Cir. 1997):
The prisoner's complaint, although perhaps not artfully drawn, nonetheless is not to be judged as a formal pleading drafted by lawyers and should be dismissed only if no set of facts can be proven that would entitle him to relief. Haines v. Kerner, 404 U.S. 520, 521 (1972); see also Neitzke v. Williams, 490 U.S. 319 (1989).
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