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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 …

The Federalism Challenges Of Protecting Medical Privacy In Workers' Compensation, Ani B. Satz

Indiana Law Journal

Under current law, injured workers face a Hobson’s choice: They may file for workers’ compensation or maintain their medical privacy. The reason for this is that § 164.512(l) of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s Privacy Rule (HPR) is widely misinterpreted by courts and legislatures as a wholesale waiver of privacy protections for injured workers. Section 164.512(l) excludes workers’ compensation from federal privacy protections that may frustrate the efficient administration of workers’ compensation claims. As the history and intent behind the HPR indicate, § 164.512(l) is premised on the assumption that states will protect workers’ privacy by creating and …

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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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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The Use Of Discovery Sanctions In Administrative Agency Adjudication, Richard T. Frije

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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Ancillary Jurisdiction And Intervention Under Federal Rule 24: Analysis And Proposals, Jeffrey L. Rensberger

Indiana Law Journal

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Personal Jurisdiction And Rule 23 Defendant Class Actions, John M. Rogers

Indiana Law Journal

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Organizational Representation Suits: Labor Unions May Attack Employment Discrimination Without Having To Meet Rule 23 Requirements, Richard J. Epps Jr.

Indiana Law Journal

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Wildcat Strikes: The Unions' Narrowing Path To Rectitude?, M. Jay Whitman

Indiana Law Journal

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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

Title Vii And Postjudgment Class Actions, John F. Crawford

Indiana Law Journal

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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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In Defense Of The Doctrine Of Mutuality Of Estoppel, Edwin H. Greenebaum

Indiana Law Journal

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Mutuality Of Estoppel-Affirmative Use Of Collateral Estoppel- Conflicting Judgments Affecting Similarly Situated Claimants, William R. Pietz

Indiana Law Journal

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Discovery Of Expert Opinion In Land Condemnation Proceedings

Indiana Law Journal

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Federal District Court Consolidation Orders And The Final Judgment Rule

Indiana Law Journal

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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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States' Rights And Federal Procedure, Bernard C. Gavit

Indiana Law Journal

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