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Case dismissed.

Publication: Risk Management
Publication Date: 01-SEP-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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In May, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a man who had been arrested on identity fraud charges two months after the 9111 attacks could not sue two U.S. officials for the discrimination and abuse he claimed to have had suffered while imprisoned. At the time, the decision in Iqbal v. Ashcroft went largely unnoticed outside of civil rights circles. But since then, it has become a go-to case in federal court decisions for an unexpected reason.

By the middle of the summer, Iqbal had been cited more than...



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