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In re: High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation

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87 Cited authorities

  1. Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly

    550 U.S. 544 (2007)   Cited 268,776 times   367 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. Erickson v. Pardus

    551 U.S. 89 (2007)   Cited 62,250 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a complaint must "give the defendant fair notice of what the . . . claim is and the grounds upon which it rests"

  3. New Hampshire v. Maine

    532 U.S. 742 (2001)   Cited 4,558 times   17 Legal Analyses
    Holding that under the doctrine of judicial estoppel, “New Hampshire is equitably barred from asserting—contrary to its position in the 1970's litigation—that the inland Piscataqua River boundary runs along the Maine shore”

  4. Associated General Contractors v. Carpenters

    459 U.S. 519 (1983)   Cited 5,058 times   34 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a union lacked standing to sue for injuries passed on to it by intermediaries

  5. In re Gilead Sciences

    536 F.3d 1049 (9th Cir. 2008)   Cited 2,920 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a court need not accept as true "allegations that are merely conclusory"

  6. Brunswick Corp. v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat, Inc.

    429 U.S. 477 (1977)   Cited 2,068 times   20 Legal Analyses
    Holding that mere economic loss does not amount to an antitrust injury under the antitrust laws

  7. Cel-Tech Communications, Inc. v. Los Angeles Cellular Telephone Co.

    20 Cal.4th 163 (Cal. 1999)   Cited 2,433 times   22 Legal Analyses
    Holding that for an act to be "unfair," it must "threaten" a violation of law or "violate the policy or spirit of one of those laws because its effects are comparable to or the same as a violation of the law"

  8. Johnson v. Riverside Healthcare

    534 F.3d 1116 (9th Cir. 2008)   Cited 1,444 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that this court may affirm on the basis of any ground fairly supported by the record

  9. Korea Supply Co. v. Lockheed Martin Corp.

    29 Cal.4th 1134 (Cal. 2003)   Cited 1,660 times   16 Legal Analyses
    Holding that plaintiff cannot recover damages under Cal. Bus. Prof. Code § 17200 unless plaintiff has "an ownership interest in the money it seeks to recover"

  10. Warren v. Fox Family Worldwide, Inc.

    328 F.3d 1136 (9th Cir. 2003)   Cited 1,150 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding the court is "not required to accept as true conclusory allegations which are contradicted by documents referred to in the complaint."

  11. Section 17200 - Unfair competition defined

    Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200   Cited 17,923 times   315 Legal Analyses
    Prohibiting unlawful business practices

  12. Rule 1 - Scope and Purpose

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 1   Cited 15,145 times   48 Legal Analyses
    Recognizing the federal rules of civil procedure should be employed to promote the "just, speedy, and inexpensive determination of every action and proceeding"

  13. Section 1 - Trusts, etc., in restraint of trade illegal; penalty

    15 U.S.C. § 1   Cited 2,932 times   70 Legal Analyses
    Forbidding every "contract, combination . . . or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States"

  14. Section 16720 - Trust

    Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 16720   Cited 425 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Prohibiting any combination to prevent competition in the "sale or purchase of any commodity"

  15. Section 1 - Short title

    Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 1   Cited 29 times
    Repealing statutory language carried over from the original exclusion in the 1917 Act of "any employee engaged in ... in farm, dairy, agricultural, viticultural or horticultural labor, [or] in stock or poultry" work, then codified at former Labor Code section 3352 (Stats. 1937, ch. 90, § 3352(c), p. 267)