I’ve been invited to be a guest blogger for the Civil Procedure Prof Blog for the month of July (see the announcement here). It is a primary repository for civil procedure news, commentary, and discussion. The Supreme Court issued a glut of civil procedure decisions at the end of its term, and that’s been keeping the [...]
Yesterday, the Supreme Court decided Bell Atlantic v. Twombly. The case has negligible impact on antitrust law but may prove to be revolutionary for civil pleadings practice. The Court repudiates the now-familiar and oft-repeated Conley v. Gibson standard for a motion to dismiss under Rule 12(b)(6) for failure to state a claim, that the motion should be granted [...]
When Emma Lively slipped in a California Wild Oats market, she probably had little idea that in less than a year she would be petitioning the Supreme Court to hear her case.
Like many cases, Lively and her lawyer, after losing on a jurisdictional issue in the Ninth Circuit, were going to cut their losses because [...]
Lamar Pettus, a local member of the bar here in Fayetteville, will speak to my Civil Procedure II class on Monday, Feb. 26, at noon in Room 324. He will speak on interesting issues of civil procedure that he has encountered in his practice. Faculty members are welcome to attend. A short bio of Mr. Pettus [...]