Colorado Supreme Court adopts Iqbal-Twombly pleading standard

Under the federal and state rules of civil procedure, are not required to provide much specificity in their pleadings. Indeed the oft-cited rule is that they must simply give “notice” of their claims. This notice pleading rule was tightened in a pair of 2007 U.S. Supreme Court cases, called Iqbal and Twombly. The Iqbal-Twombly standard continues to impose a notice requirement but explains that, in order to give sufficient notice, a plaintiff must plead enough specific facts to raise their claims “above the speculative level,” such that, if the specifically pled facts are true, he would be entitled to relief under “a plausible claim.” This new notice pleading requirement is often called the “plausibility standard.” State supreme courts are free to decide their own rules of procedure. In this case, the Colorado Supreme Court adopted Iqbal-Twombly’s plausibilty standard.

The case is Warne v. Hall, 2016 CO 50 (Colo. 6/27/16).

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