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Twombly and Iqbal Webinar

By Sean Wajert on October 26, 2010
Posted in Articles

Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings in Twombly and Iqbal —which updated the Conley “any set of facts” standard for motions …
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Duke Hosts Conference on Civil Rules

By Sean Wajert on May 20, 2010
Posted in Articles

At the request of the Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules sponsored a conference last week at…
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Does the Twombly-Iqbal Pleading Standard Apply to Defenses Too?

By Sean Wajert on January 12, 2010
Posted in Articles

A suit over an allegedly defective truck is the stage for the latest entry in the debate whether the claim pleading standards clarified in Bell Atlant…
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Anti-Iqbal Legislation Update

By Sean Wajert on November 25, 2009
Posted in Articles

A few months ago, we alerted readers to the bill that Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) had introduced that would undermine the clarified civil pleading stan…
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Federal Court Dimisses Consumer Fraud Allegations in Washer Litigation

By Sean Wajert on November 9, 2009
Posted in Articles, Class Action, Consumer Fraud, Consumer Products, Toxic Tort

A federal court has dismissed (with prejudice) a variety of consumer fraud and unjust enrichment claims in litigation alleging issues with front-loadi…
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Motion To Dismiss Filed in Combination Aspirin MDL

By Sean Wajert on September 22, 2009
Posted in Articles, Class Action, Consumer Fraud, Consumer Products, Drug and Device

Bayer Healthcare LLC moved last week to dismiss the master complaint in the federal MDL involving combination aspirin products. In Re: Bayer Corp. Com…
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Court Dismisses Counts Of Trileptal Complaint Pursuant to Twombly

By Sean Wajert on August 28, 2009
Posted in Articles, Drug and Device

Add to your list of recent cases applying the recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions that clarified pleading standards, the decision in Frey v. Novartis …
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Federal Court Dismisses Trasylol Class Action Complaint

By Sean Wajert on August 24, 2009
Posted in Articles

A federal judge in Florida has dismissed the class action claims of plaintiffs asserting economic loss from Bayer’s drug Trasylol, ruling that they ha…
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Medical Monitoring: Is Everyone A Proper Defendant?

By Sean Wajert on May 27, 2008
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Medical Monitoring, Toxic Tort

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania issued an interesting medical monitoring ruling last week, which dealt with …
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