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' "

Lujan v. Defs. of Wildlife

Holding that the elements of standing "must be supported in the same way as any other matter on which the plaintiff bears the burden of proof"

Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp.

Holding that the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars "cases brought by state-court losers complaining of injuries caused by state-court judgments rendered before the district court proceedings commenced and inviting district court review and rejection of those judgments"

Allen v. Wright

Holding that, even when plaintiffs allege "one of the most serious injuries recognized in our legal system," it's not justiciable where "the chain of causation between the challenged Government conduct and the asserted injury are far too weak for the chain as a whole to sustain respondents' standing"

Raines v. Byrd

Holding specifically and only that "individual members of Congress [lack] Article III standing"

In re Insurance Brokerage Antitrust Litigation

Holding that per se "hub and spoke" theory was not properly pled when complaint detailed specific agreements between multiple insurers and a single broker, but did not allege facts such that the court could infer that the insurers had agreed horizontally to enter into their respective agreements with the broker

Storer v. Brown

Holding challenge to election regulation not moot despite election being "long over" because regulation remained in effect and applied to "future elections"

Mortensen v. First Federal Sav. and Loan Ass'n

Holding that dismissal under Rule 12(b) would be “unusual” when the facts necessary to succeed on the merits are at least in part the same as must be alleged or proven to withstand jurisdictional attacks

U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton

Holding that "a state amendment" regulating ballot access "is unconstitutional when it has the likely effect of handicapping a class of candidates and has the sole purpose of creating additional qualifications indirectly"

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 8 - General Rules of Pleading

Holding that "[e]very defense to a claim for relief in any pleading must be asserted in the responsive pleading. . . ."

Section 1738 - State and Territorial statutes and judicial proceedings; full faith and credit

Referring to "[t]he Acts of the legislature" in the full faith and credit context

Section 2911 - Nominations by political bodies

Precluding the filing of political body nomination papers where the candidate's name has "been presented as a candidate by nomination petitions for any public office to be voted for at the ensuing primary election" or he has "been nominated by any other nomination papers filed for any such office"

Section 2911.1 - Limitations on eligibility of candidates