Arlen Specter: “I am advised by staff, since I posed the question, in a note to the effect that Senator Durbin's staff did come to look…”

last year I introduced the Notice Pleading Restoration Act of 2009, H.R. 1504. As I explained in my accompanying floor statement, my objective was to restore the pleading standard that had governed federal civil practice if not since the…

Regrettably, this Convention is not at the top of the list.

I have been battling this issue for decades.

Senator Specter cited just one. It was his vote against confirming Jeff Sessions as a Federal judge.