Montana v. United States

Holding that "once an issue is actually and necessarily determined by a court of competent jurisdiction, that determination is conclusive in subsequent suits based on a different cause of action involving a party to the prior litigation"

Weiland v. Palm Beach Cnty. Sheriff's Office

Holding that the "conclusory allegation that the Sheriff’s Office was ‘on notice’ of the need to ‘promulgate, implement, and/or oversee’ policies pertaining to the ‘use of force’ " was insufficient when the claim arose from a single incident involving two deputies

Anderson v. District Board of Trustees of Central Florida Community College

Holding that plaintiffs are required to "present each claim for relief in a separate count" rather than asserting numerous claims within a single count

Paylor v. Hartford Fire Ins. Co.

Stating that a shotgun pleading occurs where each count adopts the allegations of all preceding counts

Shurick v. the Boeing Co.

Rejecting plaintiff's attempts to distinguish Ragsdale; applying res judicata to bar subsequent claims despite different legal bases where the differences between the two claims as framed by plaintiff were "purely cosmetic" and common nucleus of operative fact was evident by the "'series of transactions closely related in time, space, and origin'"

Lloyd Noland Found. v. Fairfield H.C

Holding that an "appeal from a pretrial final judgment disposing of all claims in the case (as distinguished from a Rule 54(b)[, Ala. R. Civ. P.,] summary judgment disposing of fewer than all claims) entitles [an appellant], for purposes of our review, to raise issues based upon the trial court's . . . denial of [the appellant's own] summary-judgment motions"

Charles v. Bac Home Loans

Finding the wrongful foreclosure claim abandoned because plaintiffs offered no response to the motion to dismiss as to that claim

Cappuccitti v. Directv, Inc.

Describing Georgia law concerning unconscionability

James v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC

Holding that the plaintiffs failed to state a claim against an assignee for violating § 1639f

Anderson v. Osh Kosh B'Gosh

Holding that a pro se plaintiff's failure to effectively serve the defendant within 120 days after the complaint was filed warranted dismissal of the action without evidence of good cause

Rule 12 - Defenses and Objections: When and How Presented; Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings; Consolidating Motions; Waiving Defenses; Pretrial Hearing

Granting the court discretion to exclude matters outside the pleadings presented to the court in defense of a motion to dismiss

Rule 4 - Summons

Holding that if defendant is not served within 90 days after the complaint is filed, the court—on a motion, or on its own following notice to the plaintiff—must dismiss the action without prejudice against that defendant or order that service be made by a certain time

Rule 9 - Pleading Special Matters

Requiring that fraud be pleaded with particularity

Section 1692 - Congressional findings and declaration of purpose

Finding that abusive debt-collection practices lead to "personal bankruptcies," "marital instability," "loss of jobs," and "invasions of individual privacy"

Rule 25 - Substitution of Parties

Providing for the automatic substitution at the district-court level of public officers sued in their official capacities

Section 8-19-1 - Short title

Rule 15 - Amended and supplemental pleadings