Ashcroft v. Iqbal

Holding court need not credit "mere conclusory statements" in complaint

Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly

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

New Orleans Pub. Serv., Inc. v. New Orleans

Holding that Burford abstention is not appropriate where the plaintiff's claim "does not involve a state-law claim," and rejecting the Fifth Circuit's declaration that "`the absence of a state law claim [is] not fatal'" to the application of Burford abstention

Chambers v. Time Warner, Inc.

Holding extrinsic materials were not "integral" to the complaint because the complaint "d[id] not refer to the[m]" and "plaintiffs apparently did not rely on them in drafting it"

Cort v. Ash

Holding no private action under criminal statutes absent clear statutory basis for such inference

Cannon v. University of Chicago

Holding that Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 created a private right of action for victims of education discrimination

Transamerica Mortgage Advisors, Inc. v. Lewis

Holding that Congress did not provide a private right of action for § 80b-6 because the statute expressly provided other means of enforcing compliance with its terms

Barnett Bank of Marion County, N.A. v. Nelson

Holding that a federal statute permitting banks to act as agents of insurance companies, although not insurers themselves, was a statute regulating the "business of insurance" for McCarran-Ferguson purposes

Burford v. Sun Oil Co.

Holding that a federal court may abstain from exercising its equity jurisdiction where doing so would "be prejudicial to the public interest" or would "so clearly involve basic problems of [State] policy" (quoting United States ex rel. Greathouse v. Dern , 289 U.S. 352, 360, 53 S.Ct. 614, 77 L.Ed. 1250 (1933) )

Watters v. Wachovia Bank, N.A.

Holding that a national bank's mortgage lending activities, “whether conducted by the bank itself or through the bank's operating subsidiary, ” is governed by federal law and regulations rather than “the licensing, reporting, and visitorial regimes of the several States in which the subsidiary operates.”

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 9 - Pleading Special Matters

Requiring that fraud be pleaded with particularity

Section 541 - Property of the estate

Defining the bankruptcy estate to include "all legal or equitable interests of the debtor in property as of the commencement of the [bankruptcy] case"

Section 521 - Debtor's duties

Requiring debtor to file a schedule of assets and liabilities

Section 5225 - Payment or delivery of property of judgment debtor

Authorizing judgment creditor to commence special proceeding against garnishee who holds assets of judgment debtor

Section 24 - Corporate powers of associations

Authorizing banks "[t]o exercise . . . all such incidental powers as shall be necessary to carry on the business of banking; by discounting and negotiating promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, and other evidences of debt . . . and by obtaining, issuing, and circulating notes"

Section 5222 - Restraining notice

Forbidding a person served with a restraining notice from disposing of property owned by a judgment debtor or obligor

Section 5227 - Payment of debts owed to judgment debtor

Section 5205 - Personal property exempt from application to the satisfaction of money judgments

Listing personal property exempt from money judgments, including trust accounts

Section 5239 - Proceeding to determine adverse claims

Proceeding to determine adverse claims

Section 7.4002 - National bank charges

Listing considerations

Section 7.4009 - Reserved

Declaring that national banks are subject to state laws "not inconsistent" with national banks' powers, "to the extent that [those laws] only incidentally affect the exercise of national bank powers."

Section 6.8 - Overdraft protection charges

Requiring explanation of overdraft protection charges in a separate, conspicuous disclosure