Twombly and Iqbal at the State Level

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...

Plausible Denial : Should Congress Overrule Twombly and Iqbal ?

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

the underlying structure of language proficiency and the proficiency level

هدف از انجام این تخقیق بررسی رابطه احتمالی بین سطح مهارت زبان خارجی (foreign language proficiency) و ساختار مهارت زبان خارجی بود. تعداد 314 زبان آموز مونث و مذکر که عمدتا دانشجویان رشته های زبان انگلیسی در سطوح کارشناسی و کارشناسی ارشد بودند در این تحقیق شرکت کردند. از لحاظ سطح مهارت زبان خارجی شرکت کنندگان بسیار با هم متفاوت بودند، (75 نفر سطح پیشرفته، 113 نفر سطح متوسط، 126 سطح مقدماتی). کلا ...

the effects of multiple intelligences (focus on musical, visual, and linguistic) and direct instruction on learning grammar: a case on iranian efl students at elementary level

1.0 overview it seems that grammar plays a crucial role in the area of second and foreign language learning and widely has been acknowledged in grammar research. in other words, teaching grammar is an issue which has attracted much attention to itself, and a lot of teachers argue about the existence of grammar in language teaching and learning. this issue will remind us a famous sentence f...