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Conley As A Special Case Of Twombly And Iqbal: Exploring The Intersection Of Evidence And Procedure And The Nature Of Rules, Ronald Allen
Conley As A Special Case Of Twombly And Iqbal: Exploring The Intersection Of Evidence And Procedure And The Nature Of Rules, Ronald Allen
Ronald Allen
Two recent Supreme Court cases, Iqbal and Twombly, have caused a storm of criticism from civil proceduralists to the effect that the cases have changed the meaning of FRCP 8 outside of the Rules Enabling Act process; undercut the transsubstantive aspirations of the procedural system; breached the procedure-evidence divide inappropriately; will result in idiosyncratic trial court judgments based on bias and caprice; and have imposed an unworkable if not incomprehensible standard of plausibility on pleadings. The storm of criticism is fueled in no small part because of the awkwardness of the Court’s opinions. These cases look considerably different if viewed …
Conley As A Special Case Of Twombly And Iqbal: Exploring The Intersection Of Evidence And Procedure And The Nature Of Rules, Ronald J. Allen, Alan Guy
Conley As A Special Case Of Twombly And Iqbal: Exploring The Intersection Of Evidence And Procedure And The Nature Of Rules, Ronald J. Allen, Alan Guy
Ronald Allen
Two recent Supreme Court cases, Iqbal and Twombly, have caused a storm of criticism from civil proceduralists to the effect that the cases have changed the meaning of FRCP 8 outside of the Rules Enabling Act process; undercut the transsubstantive aspirations of the procedural system; breached the procedure-evidence divide inappropriately; will result in idiosyncratic trial court judgments based on bias and caprice; and have imposed an unworkable if not incomprehensible standard of plausibility on pleadings. The storm of criticism is fueled in no small part because of the awkwardness of the Court’s opinions. These cases look considerably different if viewed …