Legal Opinion
Guadalupe-Baez v. Police Officers A-Z
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 20, 2016No. 14-2304PPublishedCited by 127 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This case requires us to revisit the Rule 12(b)(6) pleading threshold. It involves a plaintiff who reasonably believes that he was shot by a police officer but who thereafter was deprived of access to information that would have enabled him to establish the facts and circumstances surrounding the incident. The district court determined that the allegations in the plaintiffs amended complaint lacked the requisite plausibility and therefore dismissed the action. See Guadalupe-Báez v. Police Officers A-Z, No. 13-1529, 2014 WL 4656663, at *8 (D.P.R. Sept. 17, 2014). After…
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