FRCP 8(a)(2)

In Brooks v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., 2024 WL 5186527 (S.D.N.Y. Dec. 20, 2024), an employment discrimination/hostile work environment case, the court dismissed plaintiff’s third amended complaint (TAC). Interestingly, the court did not address the merits, but rather focused on the procedural requirements for such a complaint: Rule 8(a)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil…

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In Quinones v. City of Binghamton et al, Docket No. 20-3078, 2021 WL 1898117 (2d Cir. May 12, 2021), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, inter alia, vacated the lower court’s dismissal of plaintiff’s complaint, which was based on its holding that he failed to articulate any discrimination claim. It held that…

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