‘Lengthy and unnecessarily detailed complaints are not cause for concern’
IOWA CITY — Continuing the Mercy Iowa City bankruptcy saga now in its third year, a judge this week denied MercyOne’s request to dismiss the liquidated hospital’s complaint against it, in part, for being too long, detailed and wordy.
“The main thrust of defendants’ argument — that the amended complaint is too long with too much detail — is an insufficient basis for dismissal,” Chief Bankruptcy Judge Thad Collins wrote in a Feb. 10 order, agreeing with a 7th Circuit judge’s assertion that it would be “an abuse of discretion … to dismiss a complaint merely because of the presence of superfluous matter…