88 Cited authorities

  1. Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly

    550 U.S. 544 (2007)   Cited 266,542 times   365 Legal Analyses
    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' "
  2. Dura Pharmaceuticals v. Broudo

    544 U.S. 336 (2005)   Cited 3,550 times   67 Legal Analyses
    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”
  3. Daimlerchrysler Corp. v. Cuno

    547 U.S. 332 (2006)   Cited 2,647 times   7 Legal Analyses
    Holding that an injury a plaintiff "suffers in some indefinite way in common with people generally" is not a cognizable injury-in-fact
  4. Warth v. Seldin

    422 U.S. 490 (1975)   Cited 11,861 times   14 Legal Analyses
    Holding that Article III requires plaintiffs "to establish that, in fact, the asserted injury was the consequence of the defendants' actions"
  5. Bennett v. Spear

    520 U.S. 154 (1997)   Cited 3,687 times   35 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a Final Biological Opinion has "legal consequences," even though the action agency is not legally obligated to accept the opinion's recommendations or conclusions, because the opinion "alter the legal regime to which the action agency is subject"
  6. Allen v. Wright

    468 U.S. 737 (1984)   Cited 4,756 times   9 Legal Analyses
    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"
  7. Associated General Contractors v. Carpenters

    459 U.S. 519 (1983)   Cited 5,029 times   33 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a union lacked standing to sue for injuries passed on to it by intermediaries
  8. Raines v. Byrd

    521 U.S. 811 (1997)   Cited 1,766 times   10 Legal Analyses
    Holding specifically and only that "individual members of Congress [lack] Article III standing"
  9. Simon v. E. Ky. Welfare Rights Org.

    426 U.S. 26 (1976)   Cited 3,185 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Holding plaintiffs who sued IRS lacked standing where they hoped reversal of IRS rule would " ‘discourage’ hospitals from denying their services to" plaintiffs, but whether hospitals had denied services based on the existing rule remained unclear and, even if the rule were reversed, hospitals would remain free to not provide services to plaintiffs
  10. Dewsnup v. Timm

    502 U.S. 410 (1992)   Cited 1,506 times   27 Legal Analyses
    Holding that § 506(d) does not permit a Chapter 7 debtor to strip down a partially unsecured lien
  11. Section 101 - Definitions

    11 U.S.C. § 101   Cited 26,716 times   210 Legal Analyses
    Defining "securities clearing agency" by reference to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
  12. Section 2201 - Creation of remedy

    28 U.S.C. § 2201   Cited 24,530 times   61 Legal Analyses
    Granting district courts the authority to create a remedy with the force of a final judgment
  13. Section 502 - Allowance of claims or interests

    11 U.S.C. § 502   Cited 9,147 times   85 Legal Analyses
    Permitting summary adjudication or estimation of amounts due in bankruptcy claims adjudication
  14. Section 544 - Trustee as lien creditor and as successor to certain creditors and purchasers

    11 U.S.C. § 544   Cited 8,184 times   57 Legal Analyses
    Granting to the bankruptcy trustee the power to "avoid any transfer of an interest of the debtor in property"
  15. Section 547 - Preferences

    11 U.S.C. § 547   Cited 8,125 times   82 Legal Analyses
    Seeking to avoid preferential transfers
  16. Section 548 - Fraudulent transfers and obligations

    11 U.S.C. § 548   Cited 6,509 times   81 Legal Analyses
    Seeking to avoid constructively fraudulent transfers
  17. Section 550 - Liability of transferee of avoided transfer

    11 U.S.C. § 550   Cited 4,479 times   29 Legal Analyses
    Identifying a transferee’s liability to a trustee for, among other things, fraudulent transfers
  18. Section 510 - Subordination

    11 U.S.C. § 510   Cited 1,702 times   22 Legal Analyses
    Seeking equitable subordination of pending punitive damages awards to the claims of unsecured creditors