For nearly a decade, complaints in almost all civil suits have been examined under the “plausibility standard” introduced by the Supreme Court in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly and reiterated two ...

Moreover, in the same quarter, Magistrate Judge Jeremiah J. McCarthy issued a Report and Recommendation in yet another patent case pending in the Western District. In his Report and Recommendation, ...

A pleading form is essentially a lawyer made out of paper, a two-dimensional Gideon printed on stationery by and for the state. And still, the post-conviction pleading process is filled with tripwires ...