The court of appeals without a hearing and without granting leave to amend dismissed petitioner's complaint because it omits one nonessential word in describing respondents' breach of contract. Can this disposition be squared with the pleading norms of Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a)(2), Rule15(a)(2)'s generous policy of amendment, due process and decisional law addressing this important question of federal policy and practice?

Whether the court of appeals' dismissal of the petitioner's complaint for omitting one nonessential word in describing the respondents' breach of contract can be squared with the pleading norms of Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a)(2), Rule 15(a)(2)'s generous policy of amendment, due process, and relevant decisional law