Ashcroft v. Iqbal
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Law School - The Facts Don't Come From the Dissenting Opposition
Yabit: The holding of this case had far reaching consequences, like peter already said, across all civil litigation. And the fact that it happened while the court and the legal profession sort of ignore, frankly, really important context and facts is crazy to me. Yabit: If your only understanding of the government detention of immigrants in the wake of the september eleventh attacks was from, like, reading this decision, maybe the us. Government's actions would seem fairly like limited in scoe and may be even pretty reasonable.
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