Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Civil discovery under United States federal law" in English language version.
The Iqbal decision now requires plaintiffs to come forward with concrete facts at the outset, and it instructs lower court judges to dismiss lawsuits that strike them as implausible.
The chief justice's report welcomed December's adoption of major changes to the rules governing civil litigation in the federal courts, notably limits on the pretrial exchange of information that lawyers call discovery.