Posted on July 13, 2011 by Jack Shumate
On June 21, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held, in New Albany Tractor, Inc. v. Louisville Tractor, Inc. that the Supreme Court’s rulings in Twombly and Iqbal must be strictly applied, mandating dismissal of a case in which the complaint failed to contain sufficient allegations of operative fact. What makes this decision significant is that the court recognized that the facts necessary to support the adequate allegations were probably only available from the files of the defendant; therefore, strict application of Twombly and Iqbal, denying the plaintiff access to the files in discovery, effectively denied the plaintiff any opportunity to bring the case. For this reason, the court also denied, as pointless, the plaintiff’s alternative request for leave to amend its complaint.
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