Ashcroft v. Iqbal

Holding that a claim is plausible where a plaintiff's allegations enable the court to draw a "reasonable inference" the defendant is liable

Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly

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' "

Harris v. Mills

Holding that notice and opportunity to be heard before deprivation of constitutionally protected interest coupled with Article 78 post-deprivation remedy satisfied due process

Cortec Indus., Inc. v. Sum Holding L.P.

Holding that "[w]here plaintiff has actual notice of all the information in the movant's papers and has relied upon these documents in framing the complaint the necessity of translating a Rule 12(b) motion into one under Rule 56 is largely dissipated" and affirming the district court's consideration of a stock purchase agreement, offering memorandum, and stock warrant that were "integral to [plaintiffs'] complaint"

Boykin v. Keycorp

Holding that when a plaintiff proceeds pro se, the district court "is obliged to construe his pleadings liberally" and noting that "the dismissal of a pro se claim as insufficiently pleaded is appropriate only in the most unsustainable of cases."

Selevan v. New York Thruway Authority

Finding that plaintiffs had adequately articulated Article III injury by alleging that they have paid higher tolls as a result of defendant's policy

Commissioner of Labor v. C.J.M. Services, Inc.

In C.J.M. Servs., the Commissioner sued a general contractor on behalf of employees of a subcontractor to collect unpaid wages pursuant to his authority under Conn. Gen. Stat. § 31-72.

I. Meyer Pincus Assoc. v. Oppenheimer Co.

Holding that court could consider prospectus containing alleged misrepresentations, even though plaintiff "fail[ed] to submit the prospectus as an exhibit to the complaint"

Burnham v. Karl & Gelb, P.C.

Holding that statutory remedy set forth in Conn. Gen. Stat. § 31-51(b) precluded common law wrongful discharge claim

Schachter v. Citigroup Inc.

Concluding in dicta that "the shares of restricted stock issued to [plaintiff] also constituted a wage"

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

Section 162 - Trade or business expenses

Denying deductions for illegal bribes, kickbacks, etc.

Section 31-72 - Civil action to collect wage claim, fringe benefit claim or arbitration award

Granting recovery of unpaid wages

Section 31-71a - Payment of wages: Definitions

Defining "employer" for purposes of wage collection as including "any individual, partnership, association, joint stock company, trust, corporation . . . employing any person

Section 31-69a - Additional penalty

Section 31-1 - Labor Department. Commissioner

Section 1.162-27 - Certain employee remuneration in excess of $1,000,000 not deductible for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 1994, and for taxable years beginning prior to January 1, 2018

Defining the chief executive officer of a publicly-held corporation as an employee for tax purposes