Iqbal Portal

Reflections on Iqbal: Discerning Its Rule, Grappling with Its Implications

Friday, March 26, 2010, Penn State University, The Dickinson School of Law

IQBAL PORTAL | ABSTRACTS | AGENDA

March 22, 2010

Professor Wendy Couture proposes a new factual sufficiency test in her essay Conley v. Gibson’s “No Set of Facts” Test:  Neither Cancer Nor Cure.

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March 12, 2010

This draft legislation is currently pending in the Senate of the United States.  It is introduced in response to Supreme Court’s decisions in Iqbal and Twombly.

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March 10, 2010

Edward A. Hartnett, professor of law at Seton Hall, has written an essay entitled Responding to Twombly and Iqbal: Where Do We Go from Here? Professor Hartnett addresses several proposals responding to Twombly and Iqbal, and proposes his own response.  (forthcoming in 95 Iowa L. Rev. Bull. 2010).

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February 7, 2010

This document includes tables and graphs on motions to dismiss before and after Twombly and Iqbal.  The report is based on data collected electronically from district courts’ docket entries.

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January 20, 2010

In Law, Facts, and Power, Elizabeth Thornburg argues that “the Court’s single-handed return to a pleading system that requires lawyers and judges to distinguish between pleading facts and pleading law” is wrong.  Read more.

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January 13, 2010
Penn Statim is posting a Bill introduced by  Senator Arlen Specter.  The Bill restores the pleading standards of Conley v. Gibson.

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January 08, 2010
On December 2, 2009 the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing regarding Iqbal.  Professor Stephen Burbank of University of Pennsylvania School of Law provided answers to the written questions of Senator Tom Coburn, M.D.

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January 06, 2010
Has the Supreme Court Limited Americans’ Access to Courts?  Read Stephen B. Burbank’s answers to Senator Arlen Specter’s post-hearing questions from Dec 2, 2009.  Also consider Prepared Statement of Stephen B. Burbank, David Berger Professor for the Administration of Justice at University of Pennsylvania, for Hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

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January 05, 2010
Professor Stephen Burbank of University of Pennsylvania School of Law participates in an online debate with Mark Herrmann and James M. Beck.  This most interesting discussion is titled Plausible Denial: Should Congress Overrule Twombly and Iqbal? It is available on PENNumbra.

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January 01, 2010
Symposium’s tentative agenda is available here.

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December 14, 2009
Penn Statim unveils the abstracts of the Symposium presenters.

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December 01, 2009
Penn Statim issues a Call for Papers in connection with Iqbal Symposium.

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November 01, 2009
Penn State Law Review is proud to announce an upcoming Symposium:  Reflections on Iqbal:  Discerning Its Rule, Grappling with Its Implications.  The Symposium addresses a recent decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 129 S.Ct. 1937 (2009).  The Symposium includes three panels to be held at the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University; an ongoing scholarly dialogue on Penn Statim, the online companion to Penn State Law Review; and a hard-copy publication of the papers presented at the Symposium.

The Court’s opinion in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly is available here.