The Northern District of Texas recently dismissed a TCPA claim because “the Complaint nowhere alleges that he was called or texted using an ATDS.” The Court’s opinion emphasized that simply asserting ...

In his New York Practice column, Patrick M. Connors analyzes 'Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union v. Quartararo & Lois', a case which addressed pleading requirements. For starters, the Court's ...

When a divorce or family law case begins, one party files a petition or a motion. It could be a petition for dissolution of marriage, paternity, or a motion to modify. It could be a motion for ...

About a year ago a colleague brought our attention to the increase in irrelevant, inflammatory, scandalous, and improper language in plaintiff pleadings in catastrophic injury, fire, and death cases.

For nearly a decade, complaints in almost all civil suits have been examined under the “plausibility standard” introduced by the Supreme Court in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly and reiterated two ...

Mr S.O. Giwa argues that the principle of law that declaratory reliefs cannot be granted on admission is only applicable and relevant where either of the parties makes a factual admission in their ...