Bissessur v. Indiana University Board of Trustees

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that to state a claim, a plaintiff must plead sufficient factual content that “allows the court to draw the reasonable inference that the defendant is liable for the misconduct alleged”
• explaining that the \basic legal relation between a student and a private university or college is contractual in nature\ (citation omitted)
• explaining that a claim must be plausible on its face and complaint must provide adequate factual content
• stating that to survive dismissal, a complaint must state a claim for relief that is plausible on its face
• explaining that similarly vague complaint “provide[d] no notice for the basis of [plaintiff’s] claims aside from a mere recitation of their elements”
• explaining that plaintiff’s attempt to supplement complaint in his brief was “fruitless”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).