6 Cited authorities

  1. Section 1983 - Civil action for deprivation of rights

    42 U.S.C. § 1983   Cited 506,346 times   709 Legal Analyses
    Holding liable any state actor who "subjects, or causes [a person] to be subjected" to a constitutional violation
  2. Rule 12 - Defenses and Objections: When and How Presented; Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings; Consolidating Motions; Waiving Defenses; Pretrial Hearing

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 12   Cited 361,853 times   961 Legal Analyses
    Granting the court discretion to exclude matters outside the pleadings presented to the court in defense of a motion to dismiss
  3. Rule 8 - General Rules of Pleading

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 8   Cited 164,067 times   197 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "[e]very defense to a claim for relief in any pleading must be asserted in the responsive pleading. . . ."
  4. Rule 9 - Pleading Special Matters

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 9   Cited 40,154 times   335 Legal Analyses
    Requiring that fraud be pleaded with particularity
  5. Section 1964 - Civil remedies

    18 U.S.C. § 1964   Cited 6,239 times   43 Legal Analyses
    Granting civil remedies for RICO violation
  6. Section 42 - Importation or shipment of injurious mammals, birds, fish (including mollusks and crustacea), amphibia, and reptiles; permits, specimens for museums; regulations

    18 U.S.C. § 42   Cited 426 times   1 Legal Analyses

    (a) (1) The importation into the United States, any territory of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any possession of the United States, or any shipment between the continental United States, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any possession of the United States, of the mongoose of the species Herpestes auropunctatus; of the species of so-called "flying foxes" or fruit bats of the genus Pteropus; of the zebra mussel