Law360, New York (October 20, 2009) -- Rule 8 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure requires that a complaint contain a “short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief.”[1] But does it?
In its May 2007 decision in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly,[2] the U.S. Supreme Court gutted 50 years of established legal precedent and judicially amended Rule 8’s “short and plain”...
