Ashcroft v. Iqbal

Holding that a claim is plausible where a plaintiff's allegations enable the court to draw a "reasonable inference" the defendant is liable

Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly

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' "

Papasan v. Allain

Holding that Ex parte Young would not support a suit against a state for ongoing liability for an alleged past breach of trust, since "continuing payment of the income from the lost corpus is essentially equivalent in economic terms to a one-time restoration of the lost corpus itself"

Fogerty v. Fantasy, Inc.

Holding that under the Copyright Act fee-shifting statute, 17 U.S.C. § 505, defendants and plaintiffs are to be treated the same, contrary to the Court's interpretation of § 1988

Balistreri v. Pacifica Police Dept

Holding that a cognizable gender discrimination claim could be brought by a female domestic violence victim where the victim alleged police denied protection and made misogynistic comments including that "he did not blame [the victim's] husband for hitting her, because of the way she was 'carrying on'"

United States v. Bajakajian

Holding that forfeiture 70 times the Guidelines maximum and greater than the statutory maximum would be unconstitutionally excessive

Zucco Partners, LLC v. Digimarc Corp.

Holding that "[m]ere conclusory allegations" about the resignations of company executives did not, without more, give rise to a strong inference of scienter

Oshana v. Coca-Cola Co.

Holding that the typicality requirement was not satisfied where the plaintiff's proposed class "include[d] people who knew fountain Diet Coke contained saccharin and bought it anyway" when the plaintiff "claim[ed] she was deceived and injured"

Fantasy, Inc. v. Fogerty

Holding that the district court properly struck lengthy, stale and previously litigated factual allegations to streamline the action

Denney v. Deutsche Bank AG

Holding "no class may be certified that contains members lacking Article III standing"

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 23 - Class Actions

Holding that, to certify a class, the court must find that "questions of law or fact common to class members predominate over any questions affecting only individual members"

Rule 2 - One Form of Action

Providing for "one form of action to be known as 'civil action,'" in lieu of discretely labeled actions at law and suits in equity

Section 632 - Unlawful eavesdropping or recording

Providing for "imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year"

Section 630 - Legislative declarations

Noting that CIPA was passed "to protect the right of privacy of the people of this state"

Section 637.2 - Action against person who committed violation; injunctive relief

Providing for damages of the greater of $5,000 per violation or three times the plaintiff's actual damages

Section 5704 - Exceptions to prohibition of interception and disclosure of communications

Identifying three inapplicable exceptions to the definition of "devices."

Section 632.7 - Unlawful interception or reception and intention recordation of communications transmitted between certain telephones