10. Can a court reject a pleading for including too much information? In some cases, the problem is not that of the complaint’s length but rather the inclusion of facts that constitute a defense to the claim and so “render success on the merits impossible.” Trudeau v. FTC, 456 F.3d 178, 193 (D.C. Cir. 2006). However, in DEYO v. INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, 2002 WL1482517, *1 (D. Conn. 2002), the District Court conditionally dismissed a complaint, pointing to the fact that the pleading was “neither short nor plain,” and instead ran for fortythree pages and included “verbatim dialogue from such things as telephone conversations.”