Civil Procedure Prof Blog
Is a regularly updated blog featuring issues, commentary and discussion related to civil procedure.
Author: William Counseller, an associate professor of law at Baylor Law School, and Rory Ryan, an assistant professor at Baylor, edit the Civil Procedure Prof Blog, which is part of the Law Professor Blogs Network.
Blawg Related Categories: Civil Procedure • Law Professors • Baylor University • Law Professor
Recent Posts from Civil Procedure Prof Blog
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Two Interesting Links:
Two thought-provoking links for the day: Over at his blog, Adamsdrafting, Ken Adams has an interesting post about the admissibility of expert testimony in the context of ambiguous contract terms. Whether a contract is ambiguous…
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Junior Federal Courts Conference at Michigan State
Click the link to view an updated flyer for the Federal Courts Conference at Michigan State this fall. Prof. Lou Mulligan is the contact person, and you can find his information in the flyer. Download…
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Cert. Granted
Yesterday, the Supreme Court granted certiorari on the following issue: For purposes of determining principal place of business for diversity jurisdiction citizenship under 28 U.S.C. § 1332, can court disregard location of nationwide corporation's headquarters--i.e.,…
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Case of Interest -- Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick
Readers may be interested in a case currently pending before the Supreme Court called Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick. It’s a copyright case, but it raises neat civil procedure issues. The case is a class action…
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Against Twombly & Iqbal -- A Reply to Drug & Device Law Post
Rory and Jeremy have invited responses to the formidable and polite defense of Twombly and Iqbal posted by the folks at the Drug & Device Law blog. I’m not shy—I’ll give it a shot. Let…
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Reviewing Remand Orders
Justice Scalia once asked a brilliant question: "How can that be? How can a statute explicitly eliminating appellate jurisdiction to review a remand order not 'control' whether an appellate court has jurisdiction to review a…
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The other side of the Twombly/Iqbal coin:
A few days ago, the folks at Drug and Device Law noted the Iqbal decision and the unanimous condemnation of the decision among academic bloggers. Beck and Herrmann promised to present the other side of…
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Beyond Twombly (by Prof. Scott Dodson)
Today, the Supreme Court decided Ashcroft v. Iqbal, a case that continues the recent evolution of pleading standards under Rule 8 mostly begun by a case from two years ago, Bell Atlantic v. Twombly. As…
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Iqbal decided
Today the Supreme Court released its decision in Ashcroft v. Iqbal. Section IV of the opinion has much to say about Twombly and notice plausibility pleading. --RR
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2 USSCT Decisions
Today, the Supreme Court decided Carlsbad Technology, Inc. v. HIF Bio, Inc., a case whose Certworthiness was apparent even back in November of 2007. Our readers will also be interested in today's Arthur Andersen, LLP…