Ashcroft v. Iqbal

Holding court need not credit "mere conclusory statements" in complaint

Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly

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

Patane v. Clark

Holding plaintiff adequately pleaded Title VII retaliation because she "allege[d] that she specifically overheard [defendant's employees] conspiring to drive her out of her job and that [one employee] issued a negative performance review that specifically complain[ed] about her attitude towards [him]," and therefore her allegation of causal connection was "not based only—or even primarily—on temporal proximity"

Boykin v. Keycorp

Holding that when a plaintiff proceeds pro se, the district court "is obliged to construe his pleadings liberally" and noting that "the dismissal of a pro se claim as insufficiently pleaded is appropriate only in the most unsustainable of cases."

VLIW Tech., LLC v. Hewlett-Packard Co.

Holding to survive motion to dismiss claim for breach of contract, plaintiff must demonstrate "resultant damage"

Kuroda v. SPJS Holdings, L.L.C

Holding that since “unjust enrichment cannot be used to circumvent basic contract principles recognizing that a person not a party to a contract cannot be held liable to it,” the plaintiff “cannot use a claim for unjust enrichment to extend the obligations of a contract” with an LLC to the LLC's individual members “who are not parties to the contract”

Mills v. Foremost Ins. Co.

Holding that victims of Hurricane Frances had class representative standing to represent victims of other hurricanes that had hit Florida that year in suit against insurance company for breach of contract because the absent class members' claims were "identical" to those brought by the named plaintiffs

Vanderbilt Income & Growth Associates, L.L.C. v. Arvida/JMB Managers, Inc.

Holding that the trial court may consider documents submitted by the defendant on a motion to dismiss solely for a non-hearsay purpose and therefore may not rely on factual assertions in the documents for the truth of the matter asserted

Genesee Cnty. Employees' Ret. System v. Thornburg Mortg. Sec. Trust 2006-3

Holding that standing is not tranche-based

Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi v. Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

Finding superiority where "there is no overwhelming interest by class members to proceed individually" and where "only two investors" of more than 1,600 were independently pursuing claims

Rule 8 - General Rules of Pleading

Holding that "[e]very defense to a claim for relief in any pleading must be asserted in the responsive pleading. . . ."

Section 77 - Discrimination against neutral Americans in time of war

Granting right of recovery to " any person acquiring such security (unless it is proved that at the time of such acquisition he knew of such untruth or omission)"

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