The Supreme Court may announce as early as Monday that it plans to revisit the controversial issue of pleadings standards under Rule 8 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
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But the Court explained in Twombly that the Conley statement had never been accepted literally in subsequent court decisions, and that the actual result reached in Conley (that the plaintiff had alleged sufficient facts to survive a Rule 8 motion to dismiss) continues to be fully accepted.
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The Court held that even though at trial the plaintiff would need to present circumstantial evidence to support the discrimination claim, it was sufficient for Rule 8 purposes for the plaintiff to alleged that he had been employed by the defendant and that he believed that he was fired for racially discriminatory reasons.
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Introducing a bill under the ten minute rule on 8 September 2010, Chris Bryant said the UK had a "terrible" problem with teenage pregnancy compared with other European countries.
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But even if the 8% rule is no longer based on sound economics, it clearly still carries a lot of weight with government officials.
At Cocoa Bar locations in Brooklyn and on the Manhattan's Lower East Side, a five-month-old rule forbids laptops after 8 on Friday and Saturday nights.
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The suspension was adjusted for China's rough roads, and engine size cut from 3.5 litres to 2.8, to accommodate a rule that limited government cars of over three litres to minister level or above.
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That is likely to rule him out of both the Pacific Islands game on 8 November and the Test with Australia, and possibly the entire autumn series.
Also, back in those days, the rule of thumb was a manager could manage at most 7-8 direct reports.
And on February 8, 2013, HUD issued its final disparate-impact rule, codifying the practice as legal under the Fair Housing Act.
Having stood firm for a full three days, it promised to reopen wage talks, and did not rule out another increase in the minimum wage, after a rise of 5.8% last year.
And Kirkuk, in northern Iraq, has something like 8 billion barrels remaining, but it was damaged by overproduction in the latter years of Saddam's rule and won't likely regain its peak of 700, 000 bpd.
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