Four Star Comics Corp. v. Kable News Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that defendants must provide fair notice of affirmative defenses and the grounds on which they rest
• holding an exchange of views by letter, with no telephone follow-up, “fell short” of the conference requirements
• striking a defendant’s affirmative defenses when they are “too conclusory to give [a plaintiff] fair notice of the grounds upon which [the defense rests]”
• noting extensive list of cases in which district courts applied Twombly and Iqbal to affirmative defenses
• “motions to strike will not be granted unless the insufficiency of the defense is clearly apparent and no factual issues exist that should be determined in a hearing on the merits.”
• “[T]he Court agrees with the reasoning of the courts applying the heightened pleading standard to affirmative defenses. It makes no sense to find that a heightened pleading standard applies to claims but not to affirmative defenses.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).