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' "

Clapper v. Amnesty Int'l USA

Holding that respondents could not establish injury by relying on a "speculative chain of possibilities"

Dura Pharmaceuticals v. Broudo

Holding that the securities statutes have a private of action “not to provide investors with broad insurance against market losses, but to protect them against those economic losses that misrepresentations actually cause”

Warth v. Seldin

Holding that Article III requires plaintiffs "to establish that, in fact, the asserted injury was the consequence of the defendants' actions"

Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Assoc. of the United States, Inc. v. State Farm Mutual Auto. Ins. Co.

Holding that " `settled course of behavior embodies the agency's informed judgment that, by pursuing that course, it will carry out the policies [of applicable statutes or regulations]'"

Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v. Volpe

Holding a decision is committed to agency discretion when there is "no law to apply"

Califano v. Sanders

Holding that "the APA is not to be interpreted as an implied grant of subject-matter jurisdiction to review agency actions"

Bragdon v. Abbott

Holding that DOJ's administrative guidance on ADA compliance is entitled to deference

Food & Drug Administration v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.

Holding that Congress had not yet empowered the FDA to regulate tobacco products

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 101 - Definitions

Defining "securities clearing agency" by reference to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Section 706 - Scope of review

Granting courts jurisdiction to "compel agency action unlawfully held or unreasonably delayed"

Section 78j - Manipulative and deceptive devices

Granting SEC power to establish rules to further statute forbidding manipulative or deceptive devices in connection with purchase or sale of securities

Section 702 - Right of review

Granting judicial review of "agency action"

Section 1821 - Insurance Funds

Granting FDIC standing to bring civil actions for money damages against the Bank's directors as the successor

Section 364 - Obtaining credit

Granting bankruptcy courts authority to afford superpriority status to post-petition borrowings when the debtor is unable to obtain unsecured credit

Section 4617 - Authority over critically undercapitalized regulated entities

Granting the FHFA the power to “operate” Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and “to conduct all [of their] business”

Section 77c - Classes of securities under this subchapter

Exempting state-issued securities from federal securities laws

Section 4511 - Establishment of the Federal Housing Finance Agency

Establishing FHFA as "an independent agency of the Federal Government"

Section 1237.3 - Powers of the Agency as conservator or receiver

Reiterating 12 U.S.C. § 4617(b)(B)

Section 1.1001-3 - Modifications of debt instruments

Section 1237.13 - Payment of Securities Litigation Claims while in conservatorship