Falley v. Friends University

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• noting that applying Twombly and Iqbal to affirmative defenses would “encourage parties to bog down litigation by filing and fighting motions to strike answers or defenses prematurely”
• acknowledging split in circuits and deciding that pleading standards of Iqbal and Twombly should be limited to complaints and not extended to affirmative defenses
• “[A] responding party must state defenses in short and plain terms. Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(b)(1)(A). And, arguably, a responding party asserting affirmative defenses is required to do no more than ‘affirmatively state’ such affirmative defense. Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(c)(1).”

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