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In a ruling issued on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge William Pauley III in Manhattan tore in to the lawyers on both sides of a contract and trademark dispute between United Parcel Service Inc. and the operators of about a dozen UPS franchises. The lawyers’ vice? “Behemoth pleadings,” “larded” with “prolixity” and “surplusage”—including a “sprawling” 175-paragraph complaint and a “breathtaking” 303-page answer and counterclaims, the judge wrote. In other words, the opposite of the “short and plain” pleading requirements of Section 8 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
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