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' "

District of Columbia et al. v. Heller

Holding it irrelevant to the constitutionality of D.C.'s "handgun" ban that the law allowed citizens the possession of substitutes, like "long guns"

Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, Inc.

Holding that mental disability is not a quasi-suspect class

McDonald v. City of Chicago

Holding that the Second Amendment applies to the states, through incorporation under the Fourteenth Amendment

United States v. Salerno

Holding that "extensive safeguards" are necessary "to repel a facial challenge"

Citizens United v. Fed. Election Comm'n

Holding that disclaimer and disclosure requirements are subject to exacting scrutiny

Washington v. Glucksberg

Holding that there is no fundamental right to physician-assisted suicide

Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents

Holding that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 29 U.S.C. § 626(b), effectively abrogated states’ sovereign immunity by incorporating the Fair Labor Standards Act's cause of action against a "public agency," which the FLSA statutorily defined to include "any agency of ... a State, or a political subdivision of a State," 29 U.S.C. §§ 203(x), 216(b)

Wash. State Grange v. Wa. State Repub. Party

Holding that courts should neither "anticipate a question of constitutional law in advance of the necessity of deciding it" nor "formulate a rule of constitutional law broader than is required by the precise facts to which it is to be applied"

U.S. v. Stevens

Holding law unconstitutional under First Amendment where "impermissible applications ... far outnumber[ed] any permissible ones"

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 922 - Unlawful acts

Finding that "even before the sale of a firearm, the gun, its component parts, ammunition, and the raw materials from which they are made have considerably moved in interstate commerce"

Section 1981 - Equal rights under the law

Granting equal rights to "make and enforce contracts" without regard to race

Section 1325 - Improper entry by alien

Penalizing improper entry into U.S. by virtue of willful false statement of material fact

Section 1101 - Repealed