550 U.S. 544 (2007) Cited 269,161 times 367 Legal Analyses
Holding that a complaint's allegations should "contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to 'state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face' "
Holding that, where district court neither gave plaintiff the opportunity to amend nor stated why amendment would be futile, dismissal should be without prejudice
Holding that the plaintiff's allegation that the defendant represented that a particular project would take 1.5 years to complete, even though it knew it would take significantly longer, constituted a false statement under the FCA
Concluding that the jury's findings that "defendant failed to perform repairs completely and in a workmanlike and competent manner, and that defendant repeatedly failed to respond promptly to plaintiffs’ complaints regarding those repairs" were alone insufficient "to reach conclusions of law required under § 75-1.1 as to whether defendant's actions were deceptive, immoral, unethical, oppressive, unscrupulous, or substantially injurious to consumers"
Finding Rule 9(b) satisfied where the complaint alleged fraud in late summer or fall 2006 at plaintiff's house when an appraiser falsely stated that plaintiff's house was worth at least $51,000, causing plaintiff to accept a $51,000 loan