Sean Carter, at the request of Senator Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), served on the panel that advised members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee with respect to the drafting of the Notice Pleading Restoration Act of 2010, a bill introduced in response to the Supreme Court's controversial decisions in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly and Ashcroft v. Iqbal.

Other notable members of the panel included: Stephen B. Burbank, the David Berger Professor for the Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Law School; William N. Eskridge, Jr., the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School; Arthur R. Miller, university professor at the New York University School of Law; John Payton, president and director-counsel, NAACP Legal Defense Fund and David L. Shapiro, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor Emeritus of Law at Harvard Law School.