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Originally Posted by Amnorix
Speaking for the other side of the coin, Twombly/Iqbal are there to clean out cases that are extremely weak anyway BEFORE the massive expense of discovery is incurred. You have no idea whatsoever how expensive, time-consuming and distracting discovery is in the new e-Discovery era.
If a case can't survive Twombly/Iqbal analysis, then it wasn't going anywhere anyway, except to put some money in some lawyers' pockets.
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I agree with that. I didn't mean to put a real negative spin on the new standard, and it wasn't presented to us as a negative either. Just made clear to us that the stakes were raised to a new level for the plaintiff.