Document Type

Working Paper

Publication Date

4-16-2020

SSRN Discipline

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Abstract

According to the conventional wisdom the Supreme Courts 2009 decision in Ashcroft v Iqbal discarded notice pleading in favor of plausibility pleading This Article "” part of a symposium commemorating the Iqbal decisions tenth anniversary "” highlights decisions during those ten years that have continued to endorse notice pleading despite Iqbal It also argues that those decisions reflect the best way to read the Iqbal decision Although Iqbal is a troubling decision in many respects it can be implemented consistently with the noticepleading framework that the original drafters of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure had in mind

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