Arguing that James DeLanis’s civil rights complaint against the Metropolitan Government of Nashville, Tennessee, and one of its council members failed to satisfy Twombly v. Iqbal’s heightened pleading requirements — because key allegations were hedged with the disclaimer that there were merely based on “information and belief” — the “Metro defendants” relied on one sentence from a 2013 decision by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.DeLanis, a Nashville attorney, served as chair of the local election commission and …