Ashcroft v. Iqbal

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

Allen v. Wright

Holding that, even when plaintiffs allege "one of the most serious injuries recognized in our legal system," it's not justiciable where "the chain of causation between the challenged Government conduct and the asserted injury are far too weak for the chain as a whole to sustain respondents' standing"

Riegel v. Medtronic, Inc.

Holding that a State’s “‘requirements’” “includ[e] [the state’s] common-law duties”

Bates v. Dow Agrosciences LLC

Holding that a preemption clause barring state laws "in addition to or different" from a federal Act does not interfere with an "equivalent" state provision

Cel-Tech Communications, Inc. v. Los Angeles Cellular Telephone Co.

Holding that for an act to be "unfair," it must "threaten" a violation of law or "violate the policy or spirit of one of those laws because its effects are comparable to or the same as a violation of the law"

Flannery v. Recording Indus. Ass'n of Am.

Holding that former employer's denial of consulting work to former employee after former employee filed charge with EEOC, where that work had been promised him in severance package agreed to by parties, sufficient to state retaliation claim under ADA and ADEA

McReynolds v. Merrill Lynch & Co.

Finding district court properly dismissed complaint where named plaintiffs in two cases were the same, and plaintiff could obtain "complete relief" in earlier-filed case

Wright v. Associated Ins. Companies Inc.

Holding that remand of state law claims was unnecessary even though the court did not make any findings with respect to whether it should retain jurisdiction

Connick v. Suzuki Motor Co.

Holding that statements "not made by Suzuki but by Suzuki dealers . . . cannot be the basis of a common law fraud count against Suzuki unless plaintiffs have adequately alleged that the dealers were the agents of Suzuki"

Brownmark Films, LLC v. Comedy Partners

Holding that conversion, rather than incorporation, was appropriate to consider videos to assess fair-use defense and rejecting argument that incorporation-by-reference doctrine should be expended to "encourage courts to consider affirmative defenses on 12(b) motions and thereby reduce the threat of nuisance suits"

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

Section 343-1 - National uniform nutrition labeling

Preempting state laws that conflict, inter alia, with federal law requiring foods to indicate: the name and location of the manufacturer, as well as the weight or quantity of food contained in a package; and the percentage of fruit or vegetable juice contained in a beverage

Section 815 ILCS 505/1

Defining "consumer" as "any person who purchases or contracts for the purchase of merchandise not for resale in the ordinary course of his trade or business but for his use or that of a member of his household"

Section 810 ILCS 5/2-607 - Effect of acceptance; notice of breach; burden of establishing breach after acceptance; notice of claim or litigation to person answerable over

Section 810 ILCS 5/2-601 - Buyer's rights on improper delivery

Section 165.110 - Bottled water

Discussing limits on parts of arsenic and dioxin in bottled water