Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, virtually all companies have antidiscrimination
policies in place. Although these policies represent some progress, women and minorities …

" Legal tech" is transforming litigation and law practice, and its steady advance has tapped a
rich vein of anxiety about the future of the legal profession. Much of the resulting debate …

A central challenge in the modern regulatory state is rationalizing and coordinating multiple,
overlapping, and interdependent public and private enforcement mechanisms. To that end …

Over the past three decades, Lne Pine ordiers have become a fixture of the mass-torr
landscape. Issued in large toxic-torr cases. these case-management orders require …

This is the story of Jones v. Gelb. 1 Antonio Jones alleged that a corrections officer used
pepper spray on him multiple times while Mr. Jones was already subdued; he was seated on …

Every contemporary American lawyer who has engaged in litigation is familiar with the now
fifty-four-volume treatise, Federal Practice and Procedure. 1 Both of that treatise's named …

A SHCROFT v. Iqbal'and its predecessor, Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 2 introduced a
change to federal pleading standards that had remained essentially static for five decades. 3 …

What must a poor person plead to gain access to the federal courts? How do courts decide
when a poor litigant is poor enough? This Article answers those questions with the first …

Americans turn to state courts to manage personal and business problems of all types. We
rely on state courts to end failing relationships, manage the custody of children, and gain …

When it comes to transnational litigation in the federal courts, it is time to retire the doctrine of
forum non conveniens. Forum non conveniens allows judges to dismiss, on a discretionary …