550 U.S. 544 (2007) Cited 276,716 times 369 Legal Analyses
Holding that allegations of conduct that are merely consistent with wrongdoing do not state a claim unless "placed in a context that raises a suggestion of" such wrongdoing
Holding that “[w]hen allegations, though disguised as factual, are so threadbare that they omit any meaningful factual content, we will treat them as what they are: naked conclusions” that cannot help a party pass the plausibility test
Holding that “plaintiff's implied covenant claims founder because his complaint contains only a threadbare allegation that ‘the defendant terminated [him] in bad faith ... unaccompanied by any factual allegations that might give rise to an inference of bad-faith conduct”
Affirming a dismissal because “[t]he vague references in the complaint to acts of the defendants that ‘are illegal’ and ‘without lawful authority’ were insufficient to apprise defendants that the appellants were asserting a more particular claim that there was a lack of probable cause for the arrests”
Holding that the court may consider on a motion to dismiss “information found in the mortgage itself, public records, documents incorporated into the complaint by reference, and other matters susceptible to judicial notice”
Concluding that "our precedent indicates that a statute must explicitly include attorneys’ fees in order for a court to award attorneys’ fees pursuant to that statute"
15 U.S.C. § 1692 Cited 15,203 times 141 Legal Analyses
Finding that abusive debt-collection practices lead to "personal bankruptcies," "marital instability," "loss of jobs," and "invasions of individual privacy"
R.I. Gen. Laws § 34-27-3.2 Cited 12 times 5 Legal Analyses
Stating that a certificate from the mediation coordinator certifying the mortgagee's good-faith effort to comply with the statute constitutes a rebuttable presumption that the notice requirements of subsection (d) have been met