5 Virgin Islands opinions name it 2 courts 2011–2025 1 in the last five years
The cases below were cited by Virgin Islands courts in a sentence that names this issue. Sides come from how each citing opinion treated the case (Syfertize flag on that citation), so a case can appear on both: that is where the law is contested. A red or yellow chip is the case's own overall treatment.
| Case | Followed | Cited |
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Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twomblygreen2 sentences2017There, the question concerned whether, after the adoption of the Virgin Islands Rules of Civil Procedure, complaints, tested by motions to dismiss for failure to state a claim, were subject to the more stringent plausibility standard as adopted by the Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands in Bell Atlantic Corporation v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 , 127 S. Ct. 1955 , 167 L. 2017There, the question concerned whether, after the adoption of the Virgin Islands Rules of Civil Procedure, complaints, tested by motions to dismiss for failure to state a claim, were subject to the more stringent plausibility standard as adopted by the Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands in Bell Atlantic Corporation v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 , 127 S. Ct. 1955 , 167 L. | 1 | 4 |
Joseph v. Bureau of Correctionsgreen1 sentence2025Co., 2010 UT App 82, ¶ 16 ) (cleaned up), with Joseph v. Bureau of Corrections, 54 V.I. 644, 649 (V.I. 2011) (applying the plausibility standard) (citing Bell Atl. | 1 | 1 |
Rennie v. Hess Oil Virgin Islands Corp.green1 sentence2025Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 556 (2007). 15 Clark v. Fidelity & Guaranty Insurance Underwriters, 2025 VI 15, ¶ 17 . 16 Clark, ¶ 18; Nigg v. Marriot Hotel Management Company (Virgin Islands), 2025 VI Super 5, ¶ 6. 17 Rennie v. Hess Oil Virgin Islands Corp., 62 V.I. 529, 544 (V.I. 2015). | 1 | 1 |
Pearson v. Component Technology Corporationgreen1 sentence2014See November 19,2013 Order, at 4 n.2 (citing Pearson v. Component Technology Corp., 247 F.3d 471, 484-85 (3d Cir. 2001)... the Court has held that Plaintiffs’ Amended Complaint meets the plausibility standard with respect to Plaintiffs’ corporate veil-piercing theory. | 1 | 1 |
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| No negative-treatment citations attached to this issue in Virgin Islands. Read the followed side critically anyway. | ||
| Case | Cited | Years |
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Ashcroft v. Iqbal
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2 sentences2017Ed. 2d 929 (2007), and Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 , 129 S. Ct. 1937 , 173 L. 2017Ed. 2d 929 (2007), and Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 , 129 S. Ct. 1937 , 173 L. | 2 | 2011–2017 |
Clark v. Fidelity And Guaranty Insurance Underwriters d/b/a Travelers Opinion
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1 sentence2025Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 556 (2007). 15 Clark v. Fidelity & Guaranty Insurance Underwriters, 2025 VI 15, ¶ 17 . 16 Clark, ¶ 18; Nigg v. Marriot Hotel Management Company (Virgin Islands), 2025 VI Super 5, ¶ 6. 17 Rennie v. Hess Oil Virgin Islands Corp., 62 V.I. 529, 544 (V.I. 2015). | 1 | 2025–2025 |
Casaday v. Allstate Insurance Co.
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1 sentence2025Co., 2010 UT App 82, ¶ 16 ) (cleaned up), with Joseph v. Bureau of Corrections, 54 V.I. 644, 649 (V.I. 2011) (applying the plausibility standard) (citing Bell Atl. | 1 | 2025–2025 |
Estate of Edward W. Knoster v. Ford Motor Co.
green
1 sentence2017Therefore, going forward, it is clear that the adoption of Rule 8 of the Virgin Islands Rules of Civil Procedure supersedes our prior precedents which imposed the Twombly plausibility standard by virtue of the now-amended Superior Court Rule 7, and restores the notice pleading regime that had previously been in effect. 6 See Estate of Knoster v. Ford Motor Co., 200 Fed. | 1 | 2017–2017 |
Mills-Williams v. Mapp
green
1 sentence2017Mills-Williams, 67 V.I. at 586 n.6. | 1 | 2017–2017 |
Opinions by the citing court's state. A doctrine retained in one state and abandoned in another shows up here as a year span that stalls.