What is the standard for pleading in a personal injury case?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Oppenheimer v. Sw. Airlines Co., CASE NO. 13-CV-260 - IEG (BGS) (S.D. Cal. 2013):

The applicable federal pleading standards only require "sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face." Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 677-78 (2009). "A claim has facial plausibility when the plaintiff pleads factual content that allows the court to draw the reasonable inference that the defendant is liable for the misconduct alleged." Id. at 678. This plausibility standard "does not require [courts] to flyspeck complaints looking for

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