“IFI takes issue with the fact that Howard pleads that either IFI or Nashville Quality, LLC were responsible for the accident or sabotage that resulted in glass in her food. IFI argues that ‘[b]ecause the allegations concede it is just as probable that the damages were caused by someone other than IFI and further fails to identify what IFI did or failed to do to cause the damages, the Complaint fails to state a plausible claim for relief.’ … This is wrong,” District Judge Thomas T. Cullen for the Western District of Virginia wrote. “IFI conflates Howard’s burden of proof with the pleading requirements.

       

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