Litigators and litigants should always be wary of templates, unconsidered boilerplate pleadings—and unnecessary motion practice. Last week, a federal court in Wisconsin struck boilerplate affirmative defenses that lacked “short and plain statement of the facts and…the necessary elements of the defenses.”[1] The ruling reinforced the Seventh Circuit’s standards for affirmative defenses—even though the judge... READ MORE
E.D. Wisconsin: Boilerplate Defenses Insufficient; Challenges Wasteful
Posted on July 31, 2019 in False Claims Act Defense
Published by: Hall Render
