Ashcroft v. Iqbal

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

Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly

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

Desert Palace, Inc. v. Costa

Holding that circumstantial evidence alone can sustain a mixed-motive verdict

Jimenez v. Quarterman

Holding that because the state appellate court granted the petitioner's out of time appeal and reopened the direct review proceedings it reopened the limitations period under § 2244(d), which "carries out AEDPA's goal of promoting comity, finality, and federalism by giving state courts the first opportunity to review claim, and to correct any constitutional violation in the first instance" (alteration in original)

Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner

Holding that plaintiffs subject to a regulation had standing to challenge it even though the Attorney General had yet to "authorize criminal and seizure actions for violations of the statute"

Holmes v. Securities Investor Protection Corp.

Holding that the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) could not recover under RICO for stock-manipulation scheme that bankrupted broker-dealers, triggering a statutory requirement that SIPC meet the broker-dealers' obligations to their customers

Schindler Elevator v. U.S. ex Rel. Kirk

Holding that the relator stated an FCA claim where the contractor “filed false ... reports, necessarily knowing that they were false because [it] in fact had no mechanism in place to identify covered [individuals]. It did so in order to procure contracts and obtain payment under existing contracts, as it could do neither without filing the reports.”

Harrison v. Westinghouse Savannah River Co.

Holding that the plaintiff's allegation that the defendant represented that a particular project would take 1.5 years to complete, even though it knew it would take significantly longer, constituted a false statement under the FCA

Lentell v. Merrill Lynch Co., Inc.

Holding that to prove loss causation, a plaintiff must allege "that the misstatement or omission concealed something from the market that, when disclosed, negatively affected the value of the security"

U.S. ex Rel. Grubbs v. Kanneganti

Holding that defendants received adequate notice in a False Claims Act case where the complaint alleged a scheme to submit false claims and enough details that the defendants—who "will be in possession of the most relevant records, such as patients’ charts, doctors’ notes, and internal billing records"—could adequately investigate and defend the claims

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 15 - Amended and Supplemental Pleadings

Finding that, per N.Y. C.P.L.R. § 1024, New York law provides a more forgiving principle for relation back in the context of naming John Doe defendants described with particularity in the complaint

Section 1341 - Frauds and swindles

Relating to mail fraud

Section 1343 - Fraud by wire, radio, or television

Barring fraudulent schemes "for obtaining money or property"

Section 1001 - Statements or entries generally

Making false statements

Section 3729 - False claims

Holding liable "any person" who knowingly causes false claims to be presented

Section 3730 - Civil actions for false claims

Granting the relator up to 30% of any government recovery

Section 1344 - Bank fraud

Defining the maximum prison terms for wire fraud that affects a financial institution and bank fraud, which define the penalties for the conspiracy crime that Anderson pleaded guilty to according to 18 U.S.C. § 1349, as "not more than 30 years"

Section 1014 - Loan and credit applications generally; renewals and discounts; crop insurance

Penalizing false statement to influence federal loan or credit agency

Section 1 - Words denoting number, gender, and so forth

Instructing that "words importing the plural include the singular," "unless the context indicates otherwise"

Section 0.45 - General functions

Assigning common law fraud claims to the Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division

Section 203.255 - Insurance of mortgage

Providing that before endorsing a mortgage for insurance, the Secretary will review the application to ensure, among other things, that the lender has certified that “the proposed mortgage complies with HUD underwriting requirements”

Section 203.5 - Direct Endorsement process

Section 5.33 - [Effective 1/1/2025] Business combinations involving a national bank or Federal savings association

Stating the OCC may require a vote of the members in order for a merger to be effective