550 U.S. 544 (2007) Cited 266,697 times 365 Legal Analyses
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' "
Holding that allegations of conspiratorial activity “in entirely general terms without any specification of any particular activities by any particular defendant ... was nothing more than a list of theoretical possibilities, which one could postulate without knowing any facts whatever”
Holding that plaintiffs' claims relying on "indeterminate assertions" that "defendants" or "defendants' executives" participated in the alleged conspiracy were insufficient under Twombly
Holding that the particularity requirement applies not only to actual fraud claims but also to "associated claims where the core allegations effectively charge fraud"
Holding a simple statement that plaintiffs worked more than forty hours per week was inadequate to establish a FLSA claim where the complaint lacked examples or estimates of unpaid time to substantiate the claim
Holding that "dismissal of the counts after plaintiffs had two opportunities to amend their complaint was well within the discretion of the district court especially since the plaintiffs were notified before amending a second time" that the allegations in their first amended complaint were inadequate