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Can Speech Act Theory Save Notice Pleading?, Susan E. Provenzano

Indiana Law Journal

Countless scholars have debated—and lower courts have attempted to apply—the plausibility pleading regime that the Supreme Court introduced in Twombly and Iqbal. Iqbal took Twombly’s requirement that a complaint plead plausibly and turned it into a two-step test. Under that test, the life or death of a lawsuit rests on the distinction between “well-pleaded” and “conclusory” allegations. Only the former are assumed true on a motion to dismiss. Seven decades of pleading precedent had taken a sensible, if unstable, approach to the truth assumption, making a single cut between factual contentions (assumed true) and legal conclusions (ignored). But Iqbal redrew …

Is The Antidiscrimination Project Being Ended?, Michael J. Zimmer

Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality

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Mandatory Disclosure Can Improve The Discovery System, Angela R. Lang

Indiana Law Journal

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The 1993 Revision Of Federal Rule 11, Carl Tobias

Indiana Law Journal

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Fractured Procedure: The Civil Justice Reform Act Of 1990, Lauren K. Robel

Articles by Maurer Faculty

Federal district courts have viewed the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990 as a mandate to adopt procedural rules inconsistent with existing law. But in this article, Professor Robel argues that the Act neither compels nor authorizes such local deviations. Citing examples from reforms underway in district courts nationwide, Professor Robel contends that courts' assertions of broad rulemaking authority rest on a misreading of the Act and of the compromise between Congress and the judiciary that led to its passage. Professor Robel cautions that the goal of national uniformity underlying the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure should not be compromised …

Mandatory Disclosure And Local Abrogation: In Search Of A Theory For Optional Rules, Lauren K. Robel

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Eighteen Feet Of Clay: Thoughts On Phantom Rule 4(M), Gene R. Shreve

Indiana Law Journal

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Understanding Civil Procedure, By Gene R. Shreve And Peter Raven-Hansen, William M. Richman

Indiana Law Journal

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"Inherent Power" And Rule 16, How Far Can A Federal Court Push The Litigant Toward Settlement?, David A. Rammelt

Indiana Law Journal

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Class Actions And Duplicative Litigation, Edward F. Sherman

Indiana Law Journal

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Rethinking The Class Action: A Policy Primer On Reform, John C. Coffee Jr.

Indiana Law Journal

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Rule 4: Service By Mail May Cost You More Than A Stamp, Ann Varnon Crowley

Indiana Law Journal

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Class Actions: Judicial Control Of Defense Communication With Absent Class Members, Donald D. Levenhagen

Indiana Law Journal

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Conflict And Dissent In Class Actions: A Suggested Perspective, Bryant G. Garth

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Reflections On The Senate Investigation Of Army Surveillance, Lawrence M. Baskir

Indiana Law Journal

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The Military After Vietnam: The Search for Legal Controls

Post Trial Motions Under The New Indiana Rules, Edwin H. Greenebaum

Indiana Law Journal

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Pretrial Discovery And The Adversary System, By William A. Glaser, Floyd Abrams

Indiana Law Journal

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Discovery Of Expert Opinion In Land Condemnation Proceedings

Indiana Law Journal

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The Modern Utility Of Quasi In Rem Jurisdiction, Paul D. Carrington

Articles by Maurer Faculty

Professor Carrington examines the proposed amendment to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that would confer quasi in rem jurisdiction on the federal courts and concludes that it should be rejected. Arguing that the expansion of the concept of personal jurisdiction has removed most of what justification there once was for quasi in rem jurisdiction, the author maintains that the latter jurisdiction often provides only limited and uncertain judgments for local plaintiffs while compelling nonresident defendants to litigate in an inconvenient forum, and herefore should not be made available in the federal courts merely to bring their practice into conformity …

Transfer Of Civil Actions Under 28 U.S.C. § 1404(A)

Indiana Law Journal

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Automatic Amendment Of Pleadings: Federal And Indiana Practice

Indiana Law Journal

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Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure: Liberal Joinder Of Issues And The Sequence Of Trial

Indiana Law Journal

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Procedural Techniques For Belated Attacks On Judgments In Indiana

Indiana Law Journal

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The Federal Jurisdictional Amount Requirement And Joinder Of Parties Under The Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure

Indiana Law Journal

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The Amendments To Rule 12 Of The Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure, John A. Bauman

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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States' Rights And Federal Procedure, Bernard C. Gavit

Indiana Law Journal

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The New Federal Rules And State Procedure, Bernard C. Gavit

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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