19 Cited authorities

  1. Ashcroft v. Iqbal

    556 U.S. 662 (2009)   Cited 267,813 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 280,791 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. Marsh v. Butler County

    268 F.3d 1014 (11th Cir. 2001)   Cited 1,576 times
    Holding that an official's complete inaction in the face of an excessive risk of inmate violence constitutes deliberate indifference
  4. Davis v. Coca-Cola Bottling

    516 F.3d 955 (11th Cir. 2008)   Cited 974 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that hiring decisions were "discrete acts of discrimination" that could not go forward under the continuing-violation doctrine
  5. United Tech. Corp. v. Mazer

    556 F.3d 1260 (11th Cir. 2009)   Cited 924 times
    Holding that " court without personal jurisdiction is powerless to take further action"
  6. Financial Sec. v. Stephens, Inc.

    500 F.3d 1276 (11th Cir. 2007)   Cited 646 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"
  7. Strat. Income Fund v. Spear, Leeds Kellogg

    305 F.3d 1293 (11th Cir. 2002)   Cited 720 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Deciding that the third amended complaint, which contained 127 paragraphs, all incorporated by reference into nine separate counts created an "onerous task" for the trial court to sift through
  8. Farguson v. Mbank Houston, N.A.

    808 F.2d 358 (5th Cir. 1986)   Cited 937 times
    Holding that pro se litigants have "no license to harass others, clog the judicial machinery with meritless litigation, and abuse already overloaded court dockets."
  9. Magluta v. Samples

    256 F.3d 1282 (11th Cir. 2001)   Cited 549 times
    Holding that a complaint was a shotgun complaint when, among other issues, the complaint was 58-pages long and contained at least 146 numbered paragraphs
  10. U.S. v. Baxter Intern., Inc.

    345 F.3d 866 (11th Cir. 2003)   Cited 396 times
    Holding that, under MSP, " any payment that Medicare does make is secondary and is subject to reimbursement from sources of primary coverage under the statute," regardless of whether those sources can be expected to pay promptly
  11. Rule 12 - Defenses and Objections: When and How Presented; Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings; Consolidating Motions; Waiving Defenses; Pretrial Hearing

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 12   Cited 362,607 times   962 Legal Analyses
    Granting the court discretion to exclude matters outside the pleadings presented to the court in defense of a motion to dismiss
  12. Rule 8 - General Rules of Pleading

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 8   Cited 164,455 times   197 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "[e]very defense to a claim for relief in any pleading must be asserted in the responsive pleading. . . ."