Professor Adam S. Zimmerman critiques the Federal Circuit's holding in Skaar v. McDonough that the Veterans Court's 2020 class action rule allowed as class members only those veterans who had exhausted the appeals process at the VA at the time of class certification.
Tag: civil procedure
Elizabeth Reese contextualizes McGirt v. Oklahoma as a potential game-changer for jurisdictional disputes between the United States and Native American tribes.
Bryan Lammon argues that qualified immunity has generated an appellate-procedure morass that prevents victims from getting justice when government officials, including police, violate their rights.
J. Sam Bonafede argues that to protect our civil litigation system, the Second Circuit should block DOJ's efforts to circumvent civil protective orders covering foreign-based discovery materials through well-timed grand jury subpoenas.
Professor Diego Zambrano’s recent article in the University of Chicago Law Review, Federal Expansion and the Decay of State Courts, is an institutional and comparative examination of federal and state courts as it pertains to judicial federalism. While judicial federalism has a long and complicated history, by most accounts, in the past several decades, both … Continue reading The Political Economy of Judicial Federalism by Michael E. Solimine
See Mr. Epstein's article in the Online Journal here The federal pleading threshold is probably the most confronted, least understood, threshold in American law. We know that to survive a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss in the post-Twombly and -Iqbal world, a pleading must state a claim to relief that is “plausible” on its face. … Continue reading How Probable is “Plausible”? by Daniel A. Epstein