Ashcroft v. Iqbal
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The Rules Enabling Act - The Supreme Court's Rewriting Process
This isn't a constitutional decision. It's not a statutory interpretation decision. This is a case supposedly interpreting the rules of civil procedure, which that is all technically under congress's legislative powers. And everybody agrees that this case changed that standard. There's a reason why it's cited 85 thousand times. It's the way it's taught in law school. It was the entire point they rewrote the rule.
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