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 ...

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 ...

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, ...