Where district court erred when it required plaintiff to plead facts connected to specific legal theories to survive motion to dismiss.

(d) Any agreed facts relevant to the issue or question ought to be identified.” In Workman the TCC went through the various ...

U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Edison of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas recently issued a ...

Where the state moves for civil forfeiture and establishes a prima facie case that the property is subject to forfeiture, the burden shifts to the claimant to establish that it is not.

Pennsylvania law allows verdict winners in cases involving property damage, bodily injury, or death to request delay damages ...

"Nothing in Rule 8(b) permits a party to refuse to respond to an allegation because it purportedly is a 'legal conclusion' or ...

Vol. 625, Issue. , p. 261. Since the start of the new millennium, many contemporary jurisdictions have been revisiting the fundamental principles of their civil procedures. Even the core areas of the ...

At the stroke of midnight and by the time the last verse of “Auld Lang Syne” has been sung, the newly revised Rules of Civil ...

I was recently in court with a complex domestic litigation matter. My client was the “respondent” which, in family law ...

This book discusses the impact of EU law on selected national legal systems. The authors analyse how the civil procedure system of their country has reacted to increasing Europeanisation and influence ...

A key aspect of the judgement was the identification of failures in complying with established guidance for CPR Part 8 claims ...

"We disagree with our sister circuit court's comparison of college athletes to prisoners and refuse to equate a prisoner's involuntary servitude, as authorized by the Thirteenth Amendment, to 'the ...