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

Nationwide Bi-Weekly Administration, Inc. v. Belo Corp.

Holding that Texas applies a "single publication rule" to mass media publications such as books where the statute of limitation period begins to run on the date the publication is complete

Novak v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

Finding that plaintiffs "'must state facts sufficient to allow the court to draw the reasonable inference that . . . she is in possession and that a defendant claims a right or title to the property, but has no such right or title.'"

Stewart v. Alonzo

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 8 - General Rules of Pleading

Holding that "[e]very defense to a claim for relief in any pleading must be asserted in the responsive pleading. . . ."

Section 1692 - Congressional findings and declaration of purpose

Finding that abusive debt-collection practices lead to "personal bankruptcies," "marital instability," "loss of jobs," and "invasions of individual privacy"

Section 1692e - False or misleading representations

Banning "[t]he threat to take any action that cannot legally be taken or that is not intended to be taken"

Section 1692a - Definitions

Defining debt collector

Rule 81 - Applicability of the Rules in General; Removed Actions

Recognizing that the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure "apply to proceedings for habeas corpus . . . to the extent that the practice in those proceedings: is not specified in a federal statute, the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases, or the Rules Governing Section 2255 Cases; and (B) has previously conformed to the practice in civil actions."

Section 1692c - Communication in connection with debt collection

Regulating communications with consumers

Section 1692b - Acquisition of location information

Governing the acquisition of location information

Section 392.302 - Harassment; Abuse

Prohibiting debt collectors from "causing a telephone to ring repeatedly and continuously, or making repeated or continuous telephone class, with the intent to harass a person at the called number"