Dias v. City and County of Denver

How courts have described this case

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• “[A] well-pleaded complaint may proceed even if it strikes a savvy judge that actual proof of those facts is improbable, and that a recovery is very remote and unlikely.” (quotation omitted)
• at motion to dismiss stage, in action against city, county, mayor, and other city officials, plaintiffs’ allegations that challenged ordinance was “but for” cause of injuries sufficed to meet causation requirement
• when analyzing a motion to dismiss, a court must “assume the truth of all well-pleaded facts in the complaint, and draw all reasonable inferences therefrom in the light most favorable to the plaintiffs”

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