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Boston College Law Review Publishes Article on Bell Atlantic v. Twombly

By A. Benjamin Spencer

The Boston College Law Review has just published a piece by Professor A. Benjamin Spencer (Richmond/W&L) entitled Plausibility Pleading, 49 B.C. L. Rev. 431 (2008). Here is the Abstract:Last Term, in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, the U.S. Supreme Court dramatically reinterpreted Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a)(2), which requires a ?short and plain? statement of a plaintiff?s claim. The Court was unabashed about this change of course: it explicitly abrogated a core element of its 1957 read more

Full post as published by Federal Civil Practice Bulletin on March 27, 2008 (boomark / email).