Abstract
On May 21, 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly and gutted the venerable language from Conley v. Gibson that every civil procedure professor and student can recite almost by heart: that “a complaint should not be dismissed for failure to state a claim unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitled him to relief.” This Essay explains how Bell Atlantic did so and discusses some of its implications for pleading claims in the future.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2007
Publication Information
93 Virginia Law Review: In Brief 135-143 (2007)
Repository Citation
Dodson, Scott, "Pleading Standards After Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly" (2007). Faculty Publications. 1041.
https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/facpubs/1041