Litigation
Mar. 4, 2013
Case involving federal pleading standards could be headed to high court
A significant split over federal pleading standards and a highly unusual amended opinion in a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals civil rights case has some lawyers predicting the litigation could make it to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A significant split over federal pleading standards and a highly unusual amended opinion in a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals civil rights case has some lawyers predicting the litigation could make it to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The circuit denied a petition to hear the case en banc Tuesday, but eight judges issued a forceful dissent, which - in an unusual turn of events - elicited an amended opinion ...
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