25 Cited authorities

  1. Ashcroft v. Iqbal

    556 U.S. 662 (2009)   Cited 263,882 times   281 Legal Analyses
    Holding court need not credit "mere conclusory statements" in complaint
  2. Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly

    550 U.S. 544 (2007)   Cited 277,112 times   369 Legal Analyses
    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
  3. Sinaltrainal v. Coca-Cola Co.

    578 F.3d 1252 (11th Cir. 2009)   Cited 1,189 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a complaint fails to state a claim unless the well-pled factual allegations of the complaint nudge the claims across the line from conceivable to plausible
  4. Watts v. Fla. Int'l

    495 F.3d 1289 (11th Cir. 2007)   Cited 1,154 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a complaint is sufficient if it identifies facts that are suggestive enough to render the necessary elements plausible
  5. Group v. Findwhat.Com

    658 F.3d 1282 (11th Cir. 2011)   Cited 736 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that “[d]efendants whose fraud prevents preexisting inflation in a stock price from dissipating are just as liable as defendants whose fraud introduces inflation into the stock price in the first instance”
  6. U.S. ex Rel. Clausen v. Laboratory Corp.

    290 F.3d 1301 (11th Cir. 2002)   Cited 834 times   14 Legal Analyses
    Holding Rule 9(b) applies to False Claims Act claims
  7. Financial Sec. v. Stephens, Inc.

    500 F.3d 1276 (11th Cir. 2007)   Cited 635 times
    Holding that it is appropriate to consider a document attached to a motion to dismiss when "a plaintiff refers to a document in its complaint, the document is central to its claim, its contents are not in dispute, and the defendant attaches the document to its motion to dismiss"
  8. Hardaway Co. v. Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade & Douglas, Inc.

    267 Ga. 424 (Ga. 1997)   Cited 100 times
    Holding that the plaintiff’s suit was not barred by the statute of limitation because "in a claim for economic injury sustained due to reliance upon false information negligently provided by a defendant, the statute of limitation begins to run when the plaintiff suffers pecuniary loss with certainty, and not as a matter of pure speculation"
  9. Jenkins v. BAC Home Loan Servicing, LP

    822 F. Supp. 2d 1369 (M.D. Ga. 2011)   Cited 45 times
    Finding that mortgage servicers are not debt collectors for purposes of the FDCPA
  10. Ledford v. Smith

    274 Ga. App. 714 (Ga. Ct. App. 2005)   Cited 38 times
    Finding no breach of fiduciary duty where terms of operating agreement "allowed the business activity which occurred"
  11. Rule 8 - General Rules of Pleading

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 8   Cited 162,307 times   197 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "[e]very defense to a claim for relief in any pleading must be asserted in the responsive pleading. . . ."
  12. Section 1332 - Diversity of citizenship; amount in controversy; costs

    28 U.S.C. § 1332   Cited 114,799 times   572 Legal Analyses
    Holding district court has jurisdiction over action between diverse citizens "where the matter in controversy exceeds the sum or value of $75,000"
  13. Rule 9 - Pleading Special Matters

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 9   Cited 39,914 times   332 Legal Analyses
    Requiring that fraud be pleaded with particularity
  14. Section 9-2-20 - Parties to actions on contracts; action by beneficiary

    Ga. Code § 9-2-20   Cited 223 times
    Stating that as a "general rule," a contract action "shall be brought in the name of the party in whom the legal interest in the contract is vested," or by "[t]he beneficiary of a contract . . . against the promisor on the contract"