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

American Pipe Construction Co. v. Utah

Holding the commencement of a class action "suspends the applicable statute of limitations as to all asserted members of the class who would have been parties had the suit been permitted to continue as a class action"

Cigna Healthcare of Conn. v. Napoletano

IN RE STAC ELECTRONICS SECURITIES LITIGATION

Holding securities section 11 claims sounding in fraud are subject to Rule 9(b) particularity requirements

Wagner v. First Horizon Pharmaceutical

Holding that district courts have a "supervisory obligation to sua sponte order repleading pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(e) when a shotgun complaint fails to link adequately a cause of action to its factual predicates"

Admiralty Fund v. Hugh Johnson Co.

Holding that time limitation in section 13 of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 did not allow for equitable tolling

Alpern v. Utilicorp United, Inc.

Holding that typicality means that there are "other members of the class who have the same or similar grievances as the plaintiff" and that "[f]actual variations in the individual claims will not normally preclude class certification if the claim arises from the same event or course of conduct as the class claims, and gives rise to the same legal or remedial theory"

Guerrero v. RJM Acquisitions LLC

Holding that “communications directed only to a debtor's attorney, and unaccompanied by any threat to contact the debtor, are not actionable under the [FDCPA]” (footnote omitted)

Immigrant Assistance Project of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

Holding that where an injunction provided relief to certain class members, we had pendent jurisdiction to review the certification of the class as to those members because the district court had to certify the class before granting the class members injunctive relief

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

Granting the court discretion to exclude matters outside the pleadings presented to the court in defense of a motion to dismiss

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. . . ."

Rule 15 - Amended and Supplemental Pleadings

Finding that, per N.Y. C.P.L.R. § 1024, New York law provides a more forgiving principle for relation back in the context of naming John Doe defendants described with particularity in the complaint

Rule 9 - Pleading Special Matters

Requiring that fraud be pleaded with particularity

Section 77k - Civil liabilities on account of false registration statement

Holding liable for a false registration statement "every person who was a director of . . . or partner in the issuer" at time of filing

Section 11 - Forfeiture of property in transit

Section 229.512 - (Item 512) Undertakings

Stating that the SEC's position is that indemnification to officers and directors for liabilities arising under the Securities Act is against public policy and such indemnification is unenforceable, with the exception for expenses incurred in successful defense of any action