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COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, DIVISION OF YOUTH CORRECTIONS, JAMIE NUSS, Director of Gilliam Youth Services Center, in her individual capacity, VERA DOMINGUEZ, Assistant Director of Gilliam Youth Services Center, in her individual capacity, DAISY SIERRA, in her individual capacity, CRYSTAL GONZALEZ, in her individual capacity, JOHN DOE, in his individual capacity, MARISA VANDERPUIL, in her individual capacity, GORDON DUVALL, in his individual capacity, and SHARON PENNA, R.N., in her individual capacity, Defendants. v.
This case comes before the court on Defendants Colorado Department of Human Services, Division of Youth Corrections, Nuss, Dominguez, Sierra, Gonzalez, Vanderpuil, Duvall, and Penna's “Motion to Dismiss First Amended Complaint” (Doc. No. 23 [Mot.], filed May 31, 2017). Plaintiff filed a response on June 21, 2017 (Doc. No. 26 [Resp.]), and Defendants filed a reply on June 30, 2017 (Doc. No. 27 [Reply]).
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Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 12(b)(1) empowers a court to dismiss a complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(1). Dismissal under Rule 12(b)(1) is not a judgment on the merits of a plaintiff's case. Rather, it calls for a determination that the court lacks authority to adjudicate the matter, attacking the existence of jurisdiction rather than the allegations of the complaint. See Castaneda v. INS, 23 F.3d 1576, 1580 (10th Cir. 1994) (recognizing federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction and may only exercise jurisdiction when specifically authorized to do so). The burden of establishing subject matter jurisdiction is on the party asserting jurisdiction. Basso v. Utah Power & Light Co., 495 F.2d 906, 909 (10th Cir. 1974). A court lacking jurisdiction “must dismiss the cause at any stage of the proceedings in which it becomes apparent that jurisdiction is lacking.” See Basso, 495 F.2d at 909. The dismissal is without prejudice. Brereton v. Bountiful City Corp., 434 F.3d 1213, 1218 (10th Cir. 2006); see also Frederiksen v. City of Lockport, 384 F.3d 437, 438 (7th Cir. 2004) (noting that dismissals for lack of jurisdiction should be without prejudice because a dismissal with prejudice is a disposition on the merits which a court lacking jurisdiction may not render).
A Rule 12(b)(1) motion to dismiss “must be determined from the allegations of fact in the complaint, without regard to mere conclusionary allegations of jurisdiction.” Groundhog v. Keeler, 442 F.2d 674, 677 (10th Cir. 1971). When considering a Rule 12(b)(1) motion, however, the Court may consider matters outside the pleadings without transforming the motion into one for summary judgment. Holt v. United States, 46 F.3d 1000, 1003 (10th Cir. 1995). Where a party challenges the facts upon which subject matter jurisdiction depends, a district court may not presume the truthfulness of the complaint's “factual allegations . . . [and] has wide discretion to allow affidavits, other documents, and [may even hold] a limited evidentiary hearing to resolve disputed jurisdictional facts under Rule 12(b)(1).” Id.
B Failure to State a Claim Upon Which Relief Can Be Granted .
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) provides that a defendant may move to dismiss a claim for “failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.” Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6) (2007). “The court's function on a Rule 12(b)(6) motion is not to weigh potential evidence that the parties might present at trial, but to assess whether the plaintiff's complaint alone is legally sufficient to state a claim for which relief may be granted.” Dubbs v. Head Start, Inc., 336 F.3d 1194, 1201 (10th Cir. 2003) (citations and quotation marks omitted).
“A court reviewing the sufficiency of a complaint presumes all of plaintiff's factual allegations are true and construes them in the light most favorable to the plaintiff.” Hall v. Bellmon, 935 F.2d 1106, 1198 (10th Cir. 1991). “To survive a motion to dismiss, a complaint must contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to ‘state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face.'” Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 678 (2009) (citing Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 570 (2007)). Plausibility, in the context of a motion to dismiss, means that the plaintiff pleaded facts which allow “the court to draw the reasonable inference that the defendant is liable for the misconduct alleged.” Id. The Iqbal evaluation requires two prongs of analysis. First, the court identifies “the allegations in the complaint that are not entitled to the assumption of truth, ” that is, those allegations which are legal conclusion, bare assertions, or merely conclusory. Id. at 679-81. Second, the Court considers the factual allegations “to determine if they plausibly suggest an entitlement to relief.” Id. at 681. If the allegations state a plausible claim for relief, such claim survives the motion to dismiss. Id. at 679.
Notwithstanding, the court need not accept conclusory allegations without supporting factual averments. Southern Disposal, Inc., v. Texas Waste, 161 F.3d 1259, 1262 (10th Cir. 1998). “[T]he tenet that a court must accept as true all of the allegations contained in a complaint is inapplicable to legal conclusions. Threadbare recitals of the elements of a cause of action, supported by mere conclusory statements, do not suffice.” Iqbal, 556 U.S at 678. Moreover, “[a] pleading that offers ‘labels and conclusions' or ‘a formulaic recitation of the elements of a cause of action will not do.' Nor does the complaint suffice if it tenders ‘naked assertion[s]' devoid of ‘further factual enhancement.'” Id. (citation omitted). “Where a complaint pleads facts that are ‘merely consistent with' a defendant's liability, it ‘stops short of the line between possibility and plausibility of ‘entitlement to relief.' ” Id. (citation omitted).
The CGIA “requires a person claiming to have suffered an injury by a public entity to file written notice within 180 days after the discovery of the injury, regardless of whether the person knew all of the elements of the claim.” Trinity Broad. of Denver, Inc. v. City of Westminster, 848 P.2d 916, 923 (Colo. 1993). The notice requirement is a jurisdictional prerequisite to a tort action under the CGIA, and “failure of compliance shall forever bar any such action.” Colo. Rev. Stat. § 24-10-109(1). Nevertheless, the Colorado Supreme Court has held that the term “compliance” in § 24-10-109(1) is not to be interpreted as “strict compliance” but rather as “substantial compliance”. Woodsmall v. Reg'l Transp. Dist., 800 P.2d 63, 69 (Colo. 1990); see also City & Cnty. of Denver v. Crandall, 161 P.3d 627, 632 n.5 (Colo. 2007) (contrasting the notice's timeliness requirement, which is subject to strict compliance, with “the adequacy of the notice's contents [, which] is subject to a substantial compliance standard”).
To substantially comply with the notice requirement, a claimant is required “to file written notice with the public entity and to make a good faith effort to include within the notice, to the extent the claimant is reasonably able to do so, each item of information listed in section 24-10-109(2).” Woodsmall, 800 P.2d at 69.
(a) The name and address of the claimant and the name and address of his attorney, if any; (b) A concise statement of the factual basis of the claim, including the date, time, place, and circumstances of the act, omission, or event complained of; (c) The name and address of any public employee involved, if known; (d) A concise statement of the nature and the extent of the injury claimed to have been suffered; (e) A statement of the amount of monetary damages that is being requested.
§ 24-10-109(2). The statement of the factual basis of the claim “must put the public entity on notice of the theory on which a forthcoming lawsuit will rest.” Miller v. Mountain Valley Ambulance Serv., Inc., 694 P.2d 362, 364 (Colo.App. 1984). However, “[t]he CGIA does not require the notice of legal grounds or claims for relief.” Neiberger v. Hawkins, 70 F.Supp.2d 1177, 1195 (D. Colo. 1999), aff'd, 6 F.App'x 683 (10th Cir. 2001).

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