550 U.S. 544 (2007) Cited 274,046 times 368 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
566 U.S. 30 (2012) Cited 1,316 times 4 Legal Analyses
Holding that there was an insufficient nexus "between self-care leave and gender discrimination by state employers" to validly abrogate state sovereign immunity
Holding that direct evidence of a conspiracy was lacking where the complaint's allegations did not "specify a time or place that any actual agreement to fix credit terms occurred, [or] ...indicate that any particular individuals or [organizations] made such an agreement"
Holding that plaintiff's substantive due process claims were foreclosed where "allegations fit squarely within the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment"
Holding that mother who called 911 and reported that her daughter was contemplating suicide was not seized within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment because although responding police officers urged her to accompany her daughter in the ambulance, she was free to leave at any time
Finding a claim for declaratory and injunctive relief moot where there was "no hint in the record of any present or imminent future harm from the [defendant's] alleged conduct"
Holding that in Section 1983 actions, a plaintiff must "plead that each Government-official defendant, through the official's own individual actions, has violated the Constitution"
42 U.S.C. § 12101 Cited 23,826 times 65 Legal Analyses
Finding a pattern of " unnecessary discrimination and prejudice" that "costs the United States billions of dollars in unnecessary expenses resulting from dependency and nonproductivity"
Excepting sovereign immunity for the sale of liquor to "any minor, or to any person visibly intoxicated, or to any insane person, or to any person known as an habitual drunkard, or of known intemperate habit"