Notice Pleading Restoration Act of 2009: Back to the Future

From the BLT and PrawfsBlawg, we learn that Senator Arlen Specter has fired up the DeLorean in effort to re-relax recently tightened pleading standards under Rule 12(b)(6). The good senator has introduced legislation that would return the pleading standard to that established under Conley v. Gibson, decided in 1957.

Consider this post our "short and plain statement" with regard to the proposed act.