550 U.S. 544 (2007) Cited 276,716 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
Holding that CDA bars claims for negligence and gross negligence in not preventing a 13 year old girl from lying about her age to create a personal profile that led to contact by a sexual predator
Holding that a direct infringement claim made in accordance with Form 16 (now Form 18) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure meets the Twombly pleading standard
Finding district court properly granted Nokia's motion to dismiss where Colida's infringement claims were facially implausible and provided the district court with no basis upon which to reasonably infer the ordinary observer would confuse plaintiff's patent design with Nokia's phone where the dissimilarities between the two far exceed the similarities
Fed. R. Civ. P. 84 Cited 1,037 times 7 Legal Analyses
Explaining that the appended forms "are sufficient under the rules and are intended to indicate the simplicity and brevity of statement which the rules contemplate"