Background on: Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly

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Jan 01, 2007

Issue: In Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, the issue before the Supreme Court was whether a complaint states a claim under  1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act, 15 U.S.C.  1, when it alleges that defendants engaged in parallel conduct, and also makes a bare allegation of conspiracy, without alleging facts which, if proved true, would constitute a conspiracy under law. Essentially, the court was asked to decide if parallel