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 ...

Cunningham v. Cornell University will not go into the history books as one of the most important 30 decisions of the 2024-25 term. The case involves a technical problem about pleading standards under ...

The Justice Department recently reported obtaining more than $5.6 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government in fiscal year 2021.

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The right to plead claims in the alternative is well established in New York state practice and jurisprudence. Yet, courts often seek to "streamline" cases at the very nascent stages of a litigation ...

September 21, 2021 - The recent case of Bot M8 v. Sony provided the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit an opportunity to address an issue it rarely confronts: the pleading standard ...

Three Biden associates have now invoked Fifth Amendment privilege during testimony before the House Oversight Committee, raising red flags for some amid a probe pertaining to concerns over former ...