Clifford's Notes

The American Bar Association midyear meeting in Atlanta had an open forum on two U.S. Supreme Court decisions that have been said to be among the most significant since Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. took the helm.Bell Atlantic v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007), and Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 129 S.Ct. 1937 (2009), raised the bar for drafting a complaint that is sufficiently detailed to withstand a motion …

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