550 U.S. 544 (2007) Cited 276,716 times 369 Legal Analyses
Holding that allegations of conduct that are merely consistent with wrongdoing do not state a claim unless "placed in a context that raises a suggestion of" such wrongdoing
Holding that a series of investigative reports documenting systemic deficiencies in a jail put the defendant-supervisor on notice of the risk of the harm that befell the plaintiff
Holding that warnings "d[id] not qualify as meaningful cautionary language" because they "did not disclose that defendants knew from past experience that the [risks] posed an imminent threat of business and financial ruin and that some damage from these risks had already materialized"
Holding that because separate instances of failing to promote a firefighter were identifiable, discrete acts, each “discrete discriminatory act start[ed] a new clock for filing charges alleging that act”
Holding that courts may take judicial notice of public disclosure documents in securities fraud causes, but "only for the purpose of determining what statements the documents contain, not to prove the truth of the documents’ contents"