GRAJALES v. PUERTO RICO PORTS AUTHORITY

No. 11-1404.

682 F.3d 40 (2012)

Daniel GRAJALES et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. PUERTO RICO PORTS AUTHORITY et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 13, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugenio W.A. Géigel-Simounet, with whom Géigel-Simounet Law Offices C.S.P. was on brief, for appellants.

José Vázquez García, with whom Maza & Green, P.S.C. was on brief, for appellee Puerto Rico Ports Authority.

Luis R. Román-Negrón, Acting Solicitor General, with whom Jeanette M. Collazo-Ortiz, Acting Deputy Solicitor General, Zaira Z. Girón-Anadón, Deputy Solicitor General, and Susana I. Peñagarícano-Brown, Assistant Solicitor General, were on brief, for individual appellees.

Before TORRUELLA, SELYA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This case requires us to revisit the plausibility threshold that a complaint must cross in order to survive a motion to dismiss. See, e.g., Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 678, 129 S.Ct. 1937, 173 L.Ed.2d 868 (2009); Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 556, 127 S.Ct. 1955, 167 L.Ed.2d 929 (2007). After careful consideration of a scumbled record, we reverse...

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