Three Myths About Twombly-Iqbal

Material Facts in the Debate Over Twombly and Iqbal

This Article presents empirical evidence concerning the adjudication of defendant-filed summary judgment motions. Using nearly 2000 randomly selected employment discrimination and contract cases, the Article tries to assess the performance of Twombly and Iqbal, which raised the federal pleading standard, in filtering cases according to merit. This Article begins by explaining how such data migh...

Three Myths about Roles

In multi-agent systems, roles provide an apriori decomposition of the task based on the interactions of the agents. Roles are instantiated by the agents’ actions and/or messages. Role allocation has emerged as a key computational tool in the coordination of intelligent agents who are flexible enough to take on any role. It is in this context that some rethinking about roles and their representa...

Plausible Denial : Should Congress Overrule Twombly and Iqbal ?

Two or three myths about bioinformatics

Editorial TWO OR THREE MYTHS ABOUT BIOINFORMATICS I could have started by describing the recent explosion in the analysis of biological information using computational approaches, how important the field of bioinformatics has become over the past few years and the like, but I will not. The chances are that even if you are reading this journal for the first time, you must have heard something ab...

When Kelo Met Twombly-iqbal: Implications for Pretext Challenges to Eminent Domain