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  2. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure - Wikipedia

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    The Commissioner must then be notified by the court via electronic service, eliminating the need for rule 4 service of process. The Commissioner need not admit or deny statements under rule 8(b), but must file an answer, and may file any other defense under rule 8(c) or motion to dismiss under rule 12(b) within 60 days of notice by the court.

  3. 2012 term United States Supreme Court opinions of Antonin ...

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    United States v. Bormes • []: 568 U.S. 6, 7–16 (2012) Fair Credit Reporting Act • Little Tucker Act • waiver of sovereign immunity: Unanimous: Scalia's unanimous opinion for the Court held that the Little Tucker Act had no applicability to claims brought under the FCRA.

  4. Forfeiture and waiver - Wikipedia

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    When a defendant raises an argument and then abandons it, he may be viewed as having waived that argument. For instance, a defendant raised objections to the presentence report in his case but it was ruled that he waived those objections when his counsel and the judge had the following conversation: [3] THE COURT: All right.

  5. Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly - Wikipedia

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    The decision changed the existing interpretation of the notice pleading requirements of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a)(2) and the standards for dismissal under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) by creating a new, stricter standard of a pleading's required specificity. Previously, under the standard the court set forth in Conley v.

  6. Removal jurisdiction - Wikipedia

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    Remand orders are not generally appealable [citation needed], but may be appealed in the case of removals brought under the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 or where the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation appeals a remand order under 12 U.S.C. § 1819(b)(2)(C). An alleged waiver of removal rights is also appealable, since the issue is not ...

  7. Ashcroft v. Iqbal - Wikipedia

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    Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a)(2), 12(b)(6) Iqbal , 556 U.S. 662 (2009), was a United States Supreme Court case which held that plaintiffs must present a "plausible" cause of action. Alongside Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly (and together known as Twiqbal ), Iqbal raised the threshold which plaintiffs needed to meet.

  8. Service of process - Wikipedia

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    In the U.S. legal system, service of process is the procedure by which a party to a lawsuit gives an appropriate notice of initial legal action to another party (such as a defendant), court, or administrative body in an effort to exercise jurisdiction over that person so as to force that person to respond to the proceeding in a court, body, or other tribunal.

  9. National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius

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    National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, 567 U.S. 519 (2012), is a landmark [2] [3] [4] United States Supreme Court decision in which the Court upheld Congress's power to enact most provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly called Obamacare, [5] [6] and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (HCERA), including a requirement for most ...