45 Cited authorities

  1. Ashcroft v. Iqbal

    556 U.S. 662 (2009)   Cited 255,413 times   280 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 269,161 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' "
  3. Kokkonen v. Guardian Life Ins. Co. of America

    511 U.S. 375 (1994)   Cited 19,235 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that absent a reservation of jurisdiction in the stipulated dismissal order, federal courts lack jurisdiction to consider enforcement of a settlement agreement
  4. Whren v. United States

    517 U.S. 806 (1996)   Cited 8,664 times   38 Legal Analyses
    Holding that, upon observing traffic violation, officer may stop vehicle regardless of his subjective motivations, "as long as the circumstances, viewed objectively, justify that action"
  5. Fed. Deposit Ins. v. Meyer

    510 U.S. 471 (1994)   Cited 7,069 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding a Bivens claim does not lie against federal agencies because, if damages claims were permitted against federal agencies, "there would be no reason for aggrieved parties to bring damages actions against individual officers" and thus "the deterrent effects of the Bivens remedy would be lost"
  6. Demore v. Kim

    538 U.S. 510 (2003)   Cited 1,684 times   13 Legal Analyses
    Holding that mandatory detention of noncitizens convicted of a wide variety of offenses does not violate the Due Process Clause
  7. Reno v. Flores

    507 U.S. 292 (1993)   Cited 1,748 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that, in the immigration context, minors aged sixteen or seventeen are not "too young or too ignorant to exercise" their right to make a revocable waiver of a removal or deportation hearing
  8. United States v. Kubrick

    444 U.S. 111 (1979)   Cited 2,597 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that claim under Federal Tort Claims Act accrued when plaintiff possessed "critical facts that he has been hurt and who has inflicted the injury," and rejecting argument that "plaintiff's ignorance of his legal rights" deferred accrual
  9. Navarro v. Block

    250 F.3d 729 (9th Cir. 2001)   Cited 5,599 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that dismissal is proper where there is "an absence of sufficient facts alleged to support a cognizable legal theory"
  10. Stock West, Inc. v. Confederated Tribes

    873 F.2d 1221 (9th Cir. 1989)   Cited 1,362 times
    Holding that the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2201, "only creates a remedy and is not an independent basis for jurisdiction"
  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 348,708 times   930 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 1346 - United States as defendant

    28 U.S.C. § 1346   Cited 24,150 times   23 Legal Analyses
    Determining liability to the claimant "in accordance with the law of the place where the act or omission occurred"
  13. Section 2680 - Exceptions

    28 U.S.C. § 2680   Cited 7,710 times   12 Legal Analyses
    Concluding that claims for injurious falsehoods, disparagement of property, slander of goods, or trade libel are claims arising out of libel or slander under the FTCA
  14. Section 2401 - Time for commencing action against United States

    28 U.S.C. § 2401   Cited 6,226 times   27 Legal Analyses
    Providing that a tort claim against the United States must be presented to the appropriate federal agency within two years after the claim accrues
  15. Section 1226 - Apprehension and detention of aliens

    8 U.S.C. § 1226   Cited 3,176 times   22 Legal Analyses
    Ruling that no court may set aside an immigration judge's "discretionary judgment any action or decision . . . regarding the detention or release of any alien or the grant, revocation, or denial of bond or parole"
  16. Section 1357 - Powers of immigration officers and employees

    8 U.S.C. § 1357   Cited 662 times   8 Legal Analyses
    Granting immigration enforcement authority to state or local government officials in a formal agreement with a state or local government.
  17. Section 14.2 - Administrative claim; when presented

    28 C.F.R. § 14.2   Cited 1,204 times
    Setting forth the procedures for presenting a claim under the FTCA