In Bell Atlantic Co. v. Twombly, the Supreme Court injected a “plausibility” standard into Rule 12(b)(6) for claims asserting an alleged antitrust conspiracy. Since then, lower courts, scholars, and practitioners have written...more
6/6/2014
/ Affirmative Defenses ,
Antitrust Conspiracies ,
Antitrust Injuries ,
Apple ,
Capital One ,
Class Action ,
Federal Rule 12(b)(6) ,
iTunes ,
Monopolization ,
Plausibility Standard ,
Price Discrimination ,
Sutter ,
Twombly/Iqbal Pleading Standard
A cottage industry of class action litigation recently grown up in the shadow of the FDA’s refusal to define the term “natural” for the purpose of food product labeling. In these class action suits, claimants allege that...more