9 Cited authorities

  1. Ashcroft v. Iqbal

    556 U.S. 662 (2009)   Cited 262,570 times   281 Legal Analyses
    Holding court need not credit "mere conclusory statements" in complaint
  2. Cooney v. Rossiter

    583 F.3d 967 (7th Cir. 2009)   Cited 428 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the amount of factual allegations required to state a plausible claim for relief depends on the complexity of the legal theory
  3. Bober v. Glaxo Wellcome PLC

    246 F.3d 934 (7th Cir. 2001)   Cited 184 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that no deception occurs when information available to consumers "would dispel any" misimpression caused by the defendant's statements
  4. BASF Corp. v. Old World Trading Co.

    41 F.3d 1081 (7th Cir. 1994)   Cited 180 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in finding the case exceptional where the defendant "advertised that its antifreeze met certain industry specifications" even though it "had never actually tested its antifreeze to determine whether it met [those] specifications"
  5. Gredell v. Wyeth Laboratories, Inc.

    367 Ill. App. 3d 287 (Ill. App. Ct. 2006)   Cited 16 times   2 Legal Analyses
    In Gredell, the plaintiff brought ICFA claims against a manufacturer and a distributor of certain pharmaceutical products, alleging that the defendants deceptively marketed and sold the products as an effective treatment for common cold symptoms when the defendants had no scientific evidence to support the drug's reported effects.
  6. 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 356,916 times   947 Legal Analyses
    Granting the court discretion to exclude matters outside the pleadings presented to the court in defense of a motion to dismiss
  7. Rule 8 - General Rules of Pleading

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 8   Cited 161,536 times   197 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "[e]very defense to a claim for relief in any pleading must be asserted in the responsive pleading. . . ."
  8. Rule 9 - Pleading Special Matters

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 9   Cited 39,813 times   329 Legal Analyses
    Requiring that fraud be pleaded with particularity
  9. Section 815 ILCS 505/10a - Action for actual damages

    815 ILCS 505/10a   Cited 601 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Providing individual cause of action for violation resulting in "actual damages"