Letter to the Editor
Jul. 31, 2009
Letters to the Editor
Readers weigh in on the value of demurrers, and a recent employment decision.
In his article on demurrers ("Demurrers Drain Time and Resources from Courts, Litigants," July 16), Dan Lawton argues that California should abolish demurrers and go to a form of notice pleading, just as the federal system seems to be retreating from it. In Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007), the U. S. Supreme Court repudiated its dictum in Conley v. Gibson, 355 U.S. 41 (1957), that "a complaint should not be dismissed for failure to sta...
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