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Johnson et al v. Commission on Presidential Debates et al

MOTION to Dismiss and Memorandum of Law in Support

67 Cited authorities

  1. Ashcroft v. Iqbal

    556 U.S. 662 (2009)   Cited 252,626 times   279 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a claim is plausible where a plaintiff's allegations enable the court to draw a "reasonable inference" the defendant is liable

  2. 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' "

  3. Matsushita Elec. Indus. Co. v. Zenith Radio

    475 U.S. 574 (1986)   Cited 113,103 times   38 Legal Analyses
    Holding that, on summary judgment, antitrust plaintiffs "must show that the inference of conspiracy is reasonable in light of the competing inferences of independent action or collusive action that could not have harmed" them

  4. Lujan v. Defs. of Wildlife

    504 U.S. 555 (1992)   Cited 27,829 times   138 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the elements of standing "must be supported in the same way as any other matter on which the plaintiff bears the burden of proof"

  5. Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Envtl. Servs. (TOC), Inc.

    528 U.S. 167 (2000)   Cited 7,150 times   25 Legal Analyses
    Holding that plaintiffs who curtailed their recreational activities on a river due to reasonable concerns about the effect of pollutant discharges into that river had standing

  6. Buckley v. Valeo

    424 U.S. 1 (1976)   Cited 3,412 times   37 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a public financing law does not "abridge, restrict, or censor" expression

  7. Bray v. Alexandria Clinic

    506 U.S. 263 (1993)   Cited 1,115 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the proposition that the defendants’ "class-based animus [could] be determined solely by effect" was "[not] supportable"

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

    429 U.S. 477 (1977)   Cited 2,063 times   20 Legal Analyses
    Holding that mere economic loss does not amount to an antitrust injury under the antitrust laws

  9. Federal Election Comm'n v. Akins

    524 U.S. 11 (1998)   Cited 780 times   16 Legal Analyses
    Holding that inability to procure information to which Congress has created a right in the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 qualifies as concrete injury satisfying Article III's standing requirement

  10. Atlantic Richfield Co. v. USA Petroleum Co.

    495 U.S. 328 (1990)   Cited 834 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Holding that an antitrust injury is an injury that is "attributable to an anti-competitive aspect of the practice under scrutiny"

  11. Rule 12 - Defenses and Objections: When and How Presented; Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings; Consolidating Motions; Waiving Defenses; Pretrial Hearing

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 12   Cited 345,805 times   922 Legal Analyses
    Granting the court discretion to exclude matters outside the pleadings presented to the court in defense of a motion to dismiss

  12. Section 2 - Monopolizing trade a felony; penalty

    15 U.S.C. § 2   Cited 4,383 times   30 Legal Analyses
    In § 2 cases under the Sherman Act, as in § 7 cases under the Clayton Act (Brown Shoe Co. v. United States, 370 U.S. 294, 325) there may be submarkets that are separate economic entities.

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

    15 U.S.C. § 1   Cited 2,903 times   66 Legal Analyses
    Making illegal "[e]very contract, combination ..., or conspiracy, in restraint of trade"

  14. Section 30109 - Enforcement

    52 U.S.C. § 30109   Cited 131 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Granting authority to commence investigation upon receiving complaint

  15. Section 30106 - Federal Election Commission

    52 U.S.C. § 30106   Cited 54 times
    Tasking the Commission with "administer[ing], seek[ing] to obtain compliance with, and formulat[ing] policy with respect to" FECA