Gerace v. Colvin, No. 1:2016cv03644 - Document 6 (S.D.N.Y. 2016)

Court Description: MEMORANDUM OPINION & ORDER. Plaintiff is directed to amend her Complaint to include a brief statement of facts establishing the reasons why this Court should find that the defendant's decision was wrong. Plaintiff shall file an amendment within thirty days of the date of this order. Failure to amend will result in dismissal. (As further set forth in this Order) (Signed by Judge Katherine B. Forrest on 5/19/2016) (lmb)

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Gerace v. Colvin Doc. 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK X ----------------------------------------------------------------------: TONI GERACE, : : Plaintiff, : : -v: : CAROLYN W. COLVIN, Acting Commissioner of : the Social Security Administration, : : Defendant. : X ---------------------------------------------------------------------- USDC SDNY DOCUMENT ELECTRONICALLY FILED DOC #: _________________ DATE FILED: May 19, 2016 16-cv-3644 (KBF) MEMORANDUM OPINION & ORDER KATHERINE B. FORREST, District Judge: All actions in this Court are governed by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Rule 8(a) requires that pleadings contain “a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a). For particularly deficient pleadings, a court may raise such issues sua sponte. Salahuddin v. Cuomo, 861 F.2d 40, 42 (2d Cir. 1988). Plaintiff has not satisfied the requirements of Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a)(2) as explained in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007) and Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 (2009). “While Twombly does not require heightened fact pleading of specifics, it does require enough facts to “nudge plaintiffs’ claims across the line from conceivable to plausible.” In re Elevator Antitrust Litig., 502 F.3d 47, 50 (2d Cir. 2007) (alternations omitted). In the instant Complaint, plaintiff makes “[t]hreadbare recitals of the elements of a cause of action, supported by mere conclusory statements.” Iqbal, 556 U.S. at 678. Plaintiff has not given defendant “fair notice of Dockets.Justia.com what the . . . claim is and the grounds upon which it rests.” Twombly, 550 U.S. at 555. Plaintiff’s statements that “She provided proof of . . . ongoing disability and the Administrative Law Judge erred in that his decision is not supported by substantial evidence in the record as a whole” are insufficient to meet the “plausibility” standard required by Iqbal and Twombly. (Compl. ¶ 4.) Plaintiff is directed to amend her Complaint to include a brief statement of facts establishing the reasons why this Court should find that the defendant’s decision was wrong. Plaintiff shall file an amendment within thirty days of the date of this order. Failure to amend will result in dismissal. SO ORDERED. Dated: New York, New York May 19, 2016 ______________________________________ KATHERINE B. FORREST United States District Judge 2

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