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Patrick Leahy: “By making the initial pleading standard so much tougher for plaintiffs to reach, the conservative majority on the…”

On the recordDecember 1, 2009
By making the initial pleading standard so much tougher for plaintiffs to reach, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court is making it more difficult to hold perpetrators of wrongdoing accountable.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Leahy criticizes the Supreme Court's new pleading standards for disadvantaging plaintiffs.

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