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Jan. 2013, Vol. 65, No. 1
Articles
David Haddock, Tonja Jacobi, & Matthew Sag, League Structure &Stadium Rent Seeking— the Role of Antitrust Revisited
Steven J. Cleveland, Resurrecting Deference to the Securities and Exchange Commission: Mark Cuban Trading on Inside information
Janai S. Nelson, The First Amendment, Equal Protection and Felon Disenfranchisement: A New Viewpoint
Sergio J. Campos, Erie as a Choice of Enforcement Defaults
Hanah Metchis Volokh, Constitutional Authority Statements in Congress
Sapna Kumar, The Accidental Agency?
Christian Turner, State Action Problems
Tag Archives: Ashcroft
George D. Brown, Accountability, Liability and the War on Terror—Constitutional Tort Suits as Truth and Reconciliation Vehicles
63 Fla. L. Rev. 193 (2011)| | | | ABSTRACT :: This Article examines the role of civil suits in providing accountability for the Bush administration’s conduct of the “war on terror.” There have been calls for a “Truth and … Continue reading
Posted in Antitrust & Trade Law, Business & Corporate Law, Civil Procedure, Governments and Legislation, Uncategorized
Tagged abuse of power, Arar, Ashcroft, Brown, Government Accountibility, Iqbal, Obama, Padilla, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, War on Terror
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Allison Sirica, The New Federal Pleading Standard: Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 129 S. Ct. 1937 (2009)
62 Fla. L. Rev. 547 (2010) | | | | CASE COMMENT :: In the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Javaid Iqbal, a Muslim citizen of Pakistan, was arrested and detained in a maximum … Continue reading
Posted in Attorney Practice, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights Law, Uncategorized
Tagged 2001, abusive, Ashcroft, Director of Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal Pleading Standard, Iqbal, Javaid Iqbal, John Ashcroft, Muslim Citizen, Pakistan, Robert Mueller, September 11, Sirica, strip and body cavity searches, United States Attorney General, unnecessary
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Lisa Eichhorn, Sense of Disentitlement: Frame-Shifting and Metaphor in Ashcroft v. Iqbal
62 Fla. L. Rev. 951 (2010) | | | | INTRODUCTION :: Judicial opinions analyzing civil procedure issues are unlikely sources of rich imagery. Recent legal scholarship on metaphor has focused on sexier areas of the law, such as constitutional … Continue reading
Posted in Attorney Practice, Civil Procedure, Contract Law, Uncategorized
Tagged allegations, anxieties, Ashcroft, Bell Atlantic, Civil Procedure, detailed evidence, detailed facts, Discovery, Disentitlement, Eichorn, fears and resentments, Frame-Shifting, Iqbal, litigation process, Motion to Dismiss, plausibility, specificity of pleadings, Twombly
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