550 U.S. 544 (2007) Cited 269,419 times 367 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 a consensus of three circuits was sufficient to establish that the killing of a pet was a seizure within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment
Holding that, when a nine-year-old boy asserted that he had been abused, (b) two school officials took the boy's claim seriously, and (c) a neutral physician reported that the boy's injuries were consistent with the claim of abuse, the defendant state official was entitled to qualified immunity because the official "had a reasonable basis both for suspecting child abuse and for believing [a child] to be in danger," and noting that "[t]he fact that this suspicion proved, in the long run, to be unfounded does not strip [the defendant] of his entitlement to qualified immunity"
Holding hostile work environment claim was not within scope of administrative investigation when plaintiff's charge made "no mention of [the alleged harasser] or any incidents of harassment" and was based on "qualitatively and temporally" different facts and "the conduct of different individuals"
Holding that an administrative claim of a hostile work environment was timely filed with the MCAD because one of the acts of discrimination occurred within six months of the filing
Affirming district court's finding that employee was not "adversely affected" by his work assignments because "at all relevant times, [the employee] selected his own work assignments"
Holding that an employer's failure to show that a scheduling accommodation for an arthritic employee was unreasonable precluded entry of summary judgment in favor of the employer
Holding that the statutory period begins to run even in the face of "equivocal action or inaction" by the employer if the employee had adequate notice that his request would not be accommodated
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 151B § 5 Cited 248 times 1 Legal Analyses
Granting the Commission the authority to enforce violations of "sections ninety-two A, ninety-eight and ninety-eight A of chapter two hundred and seventy-two"