United States First Circuit
Sepulveda-Villarini v. Dep't of Educ. of Puerto Rico, 08-2283
In a consolidated appeal of the district court's dismissal of two public school teachers' suits against the Puerto Rico Department of Education and several officials for refusal to accommodate their disabilities, the portion of the order in each case finding the complaint inadequate to state a Title I violation and inadequate to state a Rehabilitation Act claim, is vacated and remanded as, the standard is plausibility assuming the pleaded facts to be true and read in a plaintiff's favor. Twombly cautioned against thinking of plausibility as a standard of likely success on the merits, and here, the district court demanded more than plausibility.
Appellate Information
- Decided 12/10/2010
- Published 12/10/2010
Judges
- SOUTER
Court
- United States First Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Mauricio Hernandez Arroyo, Susana I. Peñagaricano-Brown