http://www.lexmonitor.com/tags/4584221-twombly-iqbal?only_path=false Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:45:02 GMT 20 Most Recent Articles tagged twombly/iqbal from LexMonitor http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2010/03/claim-against-donald-rumsfeld-survives-motion-to-dismiss-and-iqbal.html Last week Judge Wayne Andersen of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois denied former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's motion to dismiss a lawsuit that was filed against him by two contractors who allege they were... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:30:00 GMT http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2010/03/claim-against-donald-rumsfeld-survives-motion-to-dismiss-and-iqbal.html http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2010/02/lewis-clark-law-review-symposium-pondering-iqbal.html The Lewis & Clark Law Review Symposium "Pondering Iqbal" is now available on-line here. Contributions include: Edward Brunet, The Substantive Origins of “Plausible Pleadings”: An Introduction to the Symposium on Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 14 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 1... Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:33:55 GMT http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2010/02/lewis-clark-law-review-symposium-pondering-iqbal.html http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2010/02/cromer-young-on-after-iqbal.html Professor Julie D. Cromer Young (Thomas Jefferson School of Law) has posted "Centering the Pleading Pendulum After Iqbal" on SSRN. The abstract states: In 2007, the Supreme Court in Bell Atlantic v. Twombly introduced the concept of plausibility pleading to... Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:00:00 GMT http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2010/02/cromer-young-on-after-iqbal.html http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2010/02/spencer-on-iqbal-and-restrictive-procedure.html Prof. Benjamin Spencer (Washington & Lee) has posted on SSRN his forthcoming piece, Iqbal and the Slide Toward Restrictive Procedure, part of the Lewis & Clark Law Review's symposium on Ashcroft v. Iqbal. Here's the abstract: Last term, in Ashcroft... Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:02:03 GMT http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2010/02/spencer-on-iqbal-and-restrictive-procedure.html http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2010/02/upcoming-conference-on-iqbal-mar-26.html As covered earlier here, the Penn State Law Review is sponsoring a symposium entitled: "Reflections on Iqbal: Discerning Its Rule, Grappling with Its Implications." It's on Friday, March 26, 2010 at Penn State's Carlisle campus (simulcast to the University Park... Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:24:58 GMT http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2010/02/upcoming-conference-on-iqbal-mar-26.html http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2010/02/penn-law-review-publishes-papers-from-2009-aals-panel.html The latest edition of the Penn Law Review features the papers written for the 2009 AALS Panel, "The Changing Face of Federal Civil Pretrial Practice." The papers are: Foreword: Procedure as Palimpsest Catherine T. Struve Comparative Convergences in Pleading Standards... Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:02:00 GMT http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2010/02/penn-law-review-publishes-papers-from-2009-aals-panel.html http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2010/02/twomblyiqbal-stats-from-the-federal-judicial-center.html This is a report from the Federal Judicial Center of data concerning motions to dismiss in the months before and after both Twombly and Iqbal. The data are subject to some important limitations, such as the fact that it does... Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:18:35 GMT http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2010/02/twomblyiqbal-stats-from-the-federal-judicial-center.html http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2010/01/eight-months-of-iqbal.html I've been guest-blogging over at Concurring Opinions, and I have a few posts discussing how courts ought to make sense of federal pleading standards after Ashcroft v. Iqbal, what lower courts are actually doing, and the bills now pending in... Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:30:00 GMT http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2010/01/eight-months-of-iqbal.html http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2010/01/recent-articles-on-twomblyiqbal.html Here are some recent articles on pleading standards under Ashcroft v. Iqbal and Bell Atlantic v. Twombly: Andrew Blair-Stanek, Twombly Is the Logical Extension of the Mathews v. Eldridge Test to Discovery, 62 Florida L. Rev. 1 (2010) Stephen Brown,... Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:48:26 GMT http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2010/01/recent-articles-on-twomblyiqbal.html http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2010/01/gender-theory-and-bellwether-trials.html In a In a recent article in Law 360 on Iqbal and the NuvaRing MDL, I came across the following sentence: Hopefully this litigation can now proceed through preparation of cases and bellmare trials. (We use bellmare, as the wether... Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:13:43 GMT http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2010/01/gender-theory-and-bellwether-trials.html http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2010/01/dodson-on-new-pleadings-discovery.html Professor Scott Dodson (William & Mary School of Law) has posted "New Pleadings, New Discovery" on SSRN. The abstract states: Pleading in federal court has a new narrative. The old narrative was one of notice, with the goal of broad... Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:10:08 GMT http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2010/01/dodson-on-new-pleadings-discovery.html http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2010/01/panel-of-interest-in-new-orleans-civil-pleading-standards-after-iqbal-friday-jan-8.html Those traveling to New Orleans this week may be interested in the panel Civil Pleading Standards After Iqbal at the Federalist Society's 12th Annual Faculty Conference. Panelists include: Prof. Suzanna Sherry, Vanderbilt Law School Prof. Suja Thomas, University of Illinois... Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:22:45 GMT http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2010/01/panel-of-interest-in-new-orleans-civil-pleading-standards-after-iqbal-friday-jan-8.html http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2009/12/pennumbra-wraps-up-iqbal-debate.html Professor Burbank has posted his final statement on PENNumbra, bringing the Iqbal debate to a close (at least as far as the Penn Law Review is concerned!) The full debate is available here. RJE Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:10:21 GMT http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2009/12/pennumbra-wraps-up-iqbal-debate.html http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2009/12/new-york-times-editorial-on-iqbal.html Today, the New York Times published this editorial on Iqbal: "Restoring Access to the Courts." ~clf Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:44:35 GMT http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2009/12/new-york-times-editorial-on-iqbal.html http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2009/12/more-congressional-activity-on-iqbal.html While the Senate was wrestling with health care reform last week, the House turned once again to whether and how to legislatively overrule Iqbal. (For coverage of previous hearings in the House and Senate, see here, here, here, and here.)... Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:26:33 GMT http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2009/12/more-congressional-activity-on-iqbal.html http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2009/12/effron-on-pleading-complex-litigation-after-twombly-and-iqbal.html I suppose that one of the privileges of being a blog editor is that I can announce my own work as soon as it has been posted to SSRN. In that spirit, I have posted The Plaintiff Neutrality Principle: Pleading... Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:32:00 GMT http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2009/12/effron-on-pleading-complex-litigation-after-twombly-and-iqbal.html http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2009/12/pennumbra-twomblyiqbal-debate-continues.html Today features Professor Burbank's opening statement, adding to the Hermann/Beck opening statement posted last week. http://www.pennumbra.com/debates/debate.php?did=24 RJE Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:42:14 GMT http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2009/12/pennumbra-twomblyiqbal-debate-continues.html http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2009/12/hovenkamp-on-pleading-in-antitrust-cases.html Professor Herbert Hovenkamp (University of Iowa College of Law) has posted "The Pleading Problem in Antitrust Cases and Beyond" on SSRN as part of the Working Paper Series. The abstract states: In Twombly the Supreme Court held that an antitrust... Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2009/12/hovenkamp-on-pleading-in-antitrust-cases.html http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2009/12/senators-opine-on-iqbal-twombly-in-the-wall-street-journal.html Under the heading Restoring Justice or Hurting National Security?, yesterday's Wall Street Journal published two Senators' letters to the editor about the Notice Pleading Restoration Act of 2009. The Act is designed to legislatively overrule the Supreme Court's decisions in... Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:30:04 GMT http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2009/12/senators-opine-on-iqbal-twombly-in-the-wall-street-journal.html http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2009/12/coverage-of-yesterdays-senate-judiciary-committee-hearing-on-iqbal.html As blogged earlier here, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing yesterday entitled, "Has the Supreme Court Limited Americans' Access to Courts?" The archived webcast is available here. The witnesses (including links to their testimony) were: John Payton President and... Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:15:04 GMT http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/civpro/2009/12/coverage-of-yesterdays-senate-judiciary-committee-hearing-on-iqbal.html