550 U.S. 544 (2007) Cited 265,563 times 364 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 defendants received adequate notice in a False Claims Act case where the complaint alleged a scheme to submit false claims and enough details that the defendants—who "will be in possession of the most relevant records, such as patients’ charts, doctors’ notes, and internal billing records"—could adequately investigate and defend the claims
Holding that the language in the Equal Protection Clause "may, as it does here, simply operate at too high a level of generality" to make prior case law unnecessary, and that the broad legal principles in "class of one" cases were inapplicable because "the precise facts of a case are critical in evaluating a 'class of one' claim"
Holding that employees failed to show pretext where they "admit[ted] that they violated [the employer's] marketing policies and that employees may be terminated for marketing policy violations."
Holding that a corporation can be held vicariously liable under section 55 of the AKA and remanding the case to the district court to determine whether KBR officials acted under apparent authority in accepting kickbacks for the purposes of a knowing violation of the AKA
Holding that summaries of documents that were submitted to the FDA and that the FDA made publicly available prior to the qui tam suit's filing constituted public disclosures
Holding that the defendant who was "authorized to act on behalf of [a hospital that received in excess of $10,000 a year from a federal grant] with respect to its funds" was an agent for purposes of § 666