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· 10/15/2013

Sauseda v. United States

Citations

  • 134 S. Ct. 464
  • 187 L. Ed. 2d 311
  • 82 U.S.L.W. 3216
  • 571 U.S. 969
  • 2013 WL 4982018
  • 2013 U.S. LEXIS 7281

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that under Iqbal and Twombly a plaintiff is required “to plead enough ‘factual matter’ to raise a ‘plausible’ inference of wrongdoing”
  • stating that “the availability of other explanations—even more likely explanations—does not bar the door to discovery”
  • noting that “[t]hese ‘naked assertions 18 devoid of further factual enhancement’ contribute nothing to the sufficiency of the complaint.”
  • \[T]he mere existence of more likely alternative explanations does not automatically entitle a defendant to dismissal\
  • \[T]he mere existence of more likely alternative explanations does not automatically entitle a defendant to dismissal.\
  • “The plausibility of an inference depends on a host of considerations, including common sense and the strength of competing explanations for the defendant’s conduct.”

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