Editing Pleading (section)

===Notice===
{{details|Pleading (United States)}}

'''Notice pleading''' is the dominant form of pleading used in the [[United States]] today.<ref name="Burbank">{{cite book |last1=Burbank |first1=Stephen B. |last2=Farhang |first2=Sean |author-link1=Stephen B. Burbank |title=Rights and Retrenchment: The Counterrevolution Against Federal Litigation |date=2017 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=9781107136991 |page=69 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xs8oDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA69 |access-date=12 July 2020}}</ref> In 1938, the [[Federal Rules of Civil Procedure]] were adopted to govern civil procedure in [[United States federal courts]].<ref name="Burbank" /> One goal of the [[Federal Rules of Civil Procedure]] was to relax the strict rules of code pleading.<ref name="Burbank" /> However, each state also has its own rules of civil procedure, which may require different, looser, or stricter rules in [[State court (United States)|state court]].