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106 S. Ct. 2505 (1986) | Cited 127775 times
... JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court. In New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 279-280 (1964), we held that, in a libel suit brought by a public official, the First Amendment requires the plaintiff to show that in publishing the defamatory statement the defendant acted with ...
127 S.Ct. 1955 (2007) | Cited 123878 times
... 550 U. S. ____ (2007) Liability under §1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U. S. C. §1, requires a "contract, combination ... , or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce." The question in this putative class action is whether a §1 complaint can survive a motion to dismiss when it alleges that major ...
106 S. Ct. 2548 (1986) | Cited 117912 times
... JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court. The United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted the motion of petitioner Celotex Corporation for summary judgment against respondent Catrett because the latter was unable to produce evidence in support of her allegation in ...
98 S. Ct. 2018 (1978) | Cited 36470 times
... MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioners, a class of female employees of the Department of Social Services and of the Board of Education of the city of New York, commenced this action under 42 U. S. C. § 1983 in July 1971. 1 The gravamen of the complaint was that the ...
93 S. Ct. 1817 (1973) | Cited 31508 times
... MR. JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. The case before us raises significant questions as to the proper order and nature of proof in actions under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 253, 42 U. S. C. § 2000c et seq. Petitioner, McDonnell Douglas Corp., is an ...
416 F.3d 310 (2005) | Cited 14079 times
... PUBLISHED Argued: May 24, 2005 Before WIDENER and MOTZ, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge. Affirmed by published opinion. Judge Motz wrote the opinion, in which Judge Widener and Senior Judge Hamilton joined. OPINION Rovilma Diamond sued her former employer, Colonial Life & ...
504 U.S. 555 (1992) | Cited 13878 times
... JUSTICE SCALIA delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I, II, III-A, and IV, and an opinion with respect to Part III-B in which THE CHIEF JUSTICE, JUSTICE WHITE, and JUSTICE THOMAS join. This case involves a challenge to a rule promulgated by the Secretary of the Interior ...
101 S. Ct. 1089 (1981) | Cited 13441 times
... JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. This case requires us to address again the nature of the evidentiary burden placed upon the defendant in an employment discrimination suit brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U. S. C. § 2000e et seq. The narrow ...
86 S. Ct. 1130 (1966) | Cited 11578 times
... MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. Respondent Paul Gibbs was awarded compensatory and punitive damages in this action against petitioner United Mine Workers of America (UMW) for alleged violations of § 303 of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, 61 Stat. 158, as amended, ...
103 S. Ct. 1933 (1983) | Cited 11212 times
... JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. Title 42 U. S. C. § 1988 provides that in federal civil rights actions "the court, in its discretion, may allow the prevailing party, other than the United States, a reasonable attorney's fee as part of the costs." The issue in this case is ...
515 F.3d 224 (2008) | Cited 9954 times
... PRECEDENTIAL ARGUED JUNE 26, 2007 BEFORE: FISHER, NYGAARD, and ROTH, Circuit Judges. OPINION OF THE COURT Jeanne Phillips ("Phillips"), individually and in her capacity as administrator of the estate of her son, decedent Mark Phillips, appeals the District Court's dismissal of her claims ...
122 S.Ct. 992 (2002) | Cited 9471 times
... 534 U. S. ____ (2002) On Writ Of Certiorari To The United States Court Of Appeals For The Second Circuit This case presents the question whether a complaint in an employment discrimination lawsuit must contain specific facts establishing a prima facie case of discrimination under the framework ...
59 S. Ct. 206 (1938) | Cited 9201 times
... MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court. The United Electrical and Radio Workers of America, affiliated with the Committee for Industrial Organization, filed a charge, on May 5, 1937, with the National Labor Relations Board that the Consolidated Edison Company of New York and ...
104 S. Ct. 2229 (1984) | Cited 8148 times
... CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered the opinion of the Court. We granted certiorari to determine whether the District Court properly dismissed a Title VII complaint alleging that a law partnership discriminated against petitioner, a woman lawyer employed as an associate, when it failed to invite her to ...
105 S. Ct. 1504 (1985) | Cited 6992 times
... JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court. In Pullman-Standard v. Swint, 456 U.S. 273 (1982), we held that a District Court's finding of discriminatory intent in an action brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 253, as amended, 42 U. S. C. § 2000e et seq., is a ...
103 S. Ct. 927 (1983) | Cited 6921 times
... JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. This case, commenced as a petition for an order to compel arbitration under § 4 of the United States Arbitration Act of 1925 (Arbitration Act or Act), 9 U. S. C. § 4, presents the question whether, in light of the policies of the Act and of our ...
37 F.3d 1069 (1994) | Cited 6531 times
... Per Curiam: In this products liability case, we hold that the district court appropriately and fairly granted summary judgment for the defendants. The plaintiffs are the heirs of Marvin Joe Little and Charles Carter. Little and Carter were experienced welders working in the wingtank of a barge. At ...
126 S.Ct. 2405 (2006) | Cited 6156 times
... 548 U. S. ____ (2006) Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids employment discrimination against "any individual" based on that individual's "race, color, religion, sex, or national origin." Pub. L. 88-352, §704, 78 Stat. 257, as amended, 42 U. S. C. §2000e-2(a). A separate section of the ...
71 S. Ct. 456 (1951) | Cited 5825 times
... MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER delivered the opinion of the Court. The essential issue raised by this case and its companion, Labor Board v. Pittsburgh Steamship Co., post, p. 498, is the effect of the Administrative Procedure Act and the legislation colloquially known as the Taft-Hartley Act on the duty ...
673 F.2d 266 (1982) | Cited 5788 times
... In 1976 appellant, Richard C. Ivey, was discharged from employment by the University of Alaska and by Inupiat University. He subsequently filed suit under the Civil Rights Act for back pay and reinstatement claiming that he was terminated because of his efforts to desegregate the schools and ...
109 S. Ct. 948 (1989) | Cited 5545 times
... JUSTICE O'CONNOR delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents two questions concerning the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 88 Stat. , as amended, 29 U. S. C. § 1001 et seq. First, we address the appropriate standard of judicial review of benefit ...
107 S. Ct. 2425 (1987) | Cited 5467 times
... JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. The question for decision is whether respondents' state-law complaint for breach of individual employment contracts is completely pre-empted by § 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 (LMRA), 61 Stat. 156, 29 U. S. C. § 185, and ...
102 S. Ct. 445 (1981) | Cited 5120 times
... JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. The question in this case is whether a public defender acts "under color of state law" when representing an indigent defendant in a state criminal proceeding. I This case arose when the respondent Russell Richard Dodson filed a pro se complaint ...
431 F.2d 409 (1970) | Cited 4744 times
... JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge: "Touching the Adventures and Perils which we, the said Underwriters, are contented to bear and take upon us, they are of the Seas, Men-of-War, Fire, Lightning, Earthquake, Enemies, Pirates, Rovers, Assailing Thieves, Jettisons, Letters of Mart and Counter-Mart, ...
103 S. Ct. 2841 (1983) | Cited 4678 times
... JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. The principal question in dispute between the parties is whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 88 Stat. 829, as amended, 29 U. S. C. § 1001 et seq. (1976 ed. and Supp. V), permits state tax authorities to ...
901 F.2d 387 (1990) | Cited 4570 times
... CHAPMAN, Circuit Judge: The plaintiff/appellant, Clifton William Weller, appeals the dismissal of his suit for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. The district court dismissed the action sua sponte prior to service of process pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(h)(3), for lack of federal jurisdiction. We ...
104 S. Ct. 1541 (1984) | Cited 4456 times
... JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. Title 42 U. S. C. § 1988 (1976 ed., Supp. V) provides that in federal civil rights actions "the court, in its discretion, may allow the prevailing party, other than the United States, a reasonable attorney's fee as part of the costs." The initial ...
84 S. Ct. 710 (1964) | Cited 4378 times
... MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. We are required in this case to determine for the first time the extent to which the constitutional protections for speech and press limit a State's power to award damages in a libel action brought by a public official against critics of his ...
106 S. Ct. 2399 (1986) | Cited 4127 times
... JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents important questions concerning claims of workplace "sexual harassment" brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 253, as amended, 42 U. S. C. § 2000e et seq. I In 1974, respondent Mechelle Vinson met ...
488 F.2d 714 (1974) | Cited 4023 times
... RONEY, Circuit Judge: The question on this appeal concerns the adequacy of attorneys' fees awarded by the District Court in a Title VII class action. Plaintiffs challenge as inadequate the $13,500.00 awarded for their alleged 659.5 billable hours accrued during more than four years of litigation. ...
111 S. Ct. 2123 (1991) | Cited 4002 times
... JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court. This case requires us to explore the scope of the inherent power of a federal court to sanction a litigant for bad-faith conduct. Specifically, we are asked to determine whether the District Court, sitting in diversity, properly invoked its ...
809 F.2d 626 (1987) | Cited 3959 times
... Before: Dorothy W. Nelson, Stephen Reinhardt and Charles Wiggins, Circuit Judges. NELSON, Circuit Judge: Eight electrical contractors appeal from the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant Pacific Electrical Contractors Association on all of the contractor's federal ...
80 S. Ct. 1347 (1960) | Cited 3922 times
... Opinion of the Court by MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS, announced by MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN. Respondent transports steel and steel products by barge and maintains a terminal at Chickasaw, Alabama, where it performs maintenance and repair work on its barges. The employees at that terminal constitute a bargaining ...
132 F.3d 902 (1997) | Cited 3905 times
... Filed December 23, 1997 Argued July 24, 1997 OPINION OF THE COURT This civil rights action raises the question of what a plaintiff must plead in order to state a viable claim under the state-created danger theory of 42 U.S.C.A. Section(s) 1983 (West 1994 & Supp. 1997). The district court granted ...
998 F.2d 1192 (1993) | Cited 3727 times
... Opinion OF THE COURT COWEN, Circuit Judge. White Consolidated Industries, Inc. ("WCI") sold a group of unprofitable businesses and their associated underfunded pension plans to a newly formed corporation. WCI, however, remained contractually obligated to make substantial contributions to the ...
829 F.2d 1370 (1987) | Cited 3725 times
... CELEBREZZE, Senior Circuit Judge. Defendant-appellant Detroit Federation of Teachers, Local 231, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO ("DFT" or "the Union") appeals that portion of a district court's order which rejected a magistrate's recommendation that DFT be awarded attorney's fees ...
126 S.Ct. 1235 (2006) | Cited 3605 times
... 546 U. S. ____ (2006) This case concerns the distinction between two sometimes confused or conflated concepts: federal-court "subject-matter" jurisdiction over a controversy; and the essential ingredients of a federal claim for relief. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 makes it unlawful ...
90 S. Ct. 1011 (1970) | Cited 3449 times
... MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. The question for decision is whether a State that terminates public assistance payments to a particular recipient without affording him the opportunity for an evidentiary hearing prior to termination denies the recipient procedural due ...
536 U.S. 101 (2002) | Cited 3439 times
... 536 U. S. ____ (2002) Respondent Abner Morgan, Jr., sued petitioner National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 253, as amended, 42 U. S. C. §2000e et seq. (1994 ed. and Supp.V), alleging that he had been subjected to discrete ...
528 U.S. 562 (2000) | Cited 3412 times
... On Writ Of Certiorari To The United States Court Of Appeals For The Seventh Circuit Per Curiam. Respondent Grace Olech and her late husband Thaddeus asked petitioner Village of Willowbrook to connect their property to the municipal water supply. The Village at first conditioned the connection on ...
97 S.Ct. 1843 (1977) | Cited 3346 times
... CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT Argued January 10, 1977 STEWART, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which BURGER, C. J., and WHITE, BLACKMUN, POWELL, REHNQUIST, and STEVENS, JJ., joined. MARSHALL, J., filed an opinion concurring in part and ...
845 F.2d 1195 (1988) | Cited 3211 times
... Opinion OF THE COURT ROSENN, Circuit Judge. Vivian Rode, a civilian employee of the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP), filed a civil rights action against the defendants in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985. She alleged that ...
87 S. Ct. 903 (1967) | Cited 3165 times
... MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court. On February 13, 1962, Benjamin Owens filed this class action against petitioners, as officers and representatives of the National Brotherhood of Packinghouse Workers 1 and of its Kansas City Local No. 12 (the Union), in the Circuit Court of ...
109 S. Ct. 1775 (1989) | Cited 3113 times
... JUSTICE BRENNAN announced the judgment of the Court and delivered an opinion, in which JUSTICE MARSHALL, JUSTICE BLACKMUN, and JUSTICE STEVENS join. Ann Hopkins was a senior manager in an office of Price Waterhouse when she was proposed for partnership in 1982. She was neither offered nor denied ...
67 S. Ct. 385 (1947) | Cited 3084 times
... MR. JUSTICE MURPHY delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents an important problem under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure as to the extent to which a party may inquire into oral and written statements of witnesses, or other information, secured by an adverse party's counsel in the ...
106 S. Ct. 1415 (1986) | Cited 3038 times
... JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court. The issue presented in this case is whether a court asked to order arbitration of a grievance filed under a collective-bargaining agreement must first determine that the parties intended to arbitrate the dispute, or whether that determination is ...
886 F.2d 1472 (1989) | Cited 3001 times
... BERTELSMAN, District Judge INTRODUCTION This is a securities/commodities fraud action, originally brought in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee. It alleges a broker's violations of the Commodities Exchange Act, 7 U.S.C. §§ 6, 6a, 6c, 6d, 6o and 25; the ...
104 S. Ct. 3315 (1984) | Cited 2896 times
... JUSTICE O'CONNOR delivered the opinion of the Court. Parents of black public school children allege in this nationwide class action that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has not adopted sufficient standards and procedures to fulfill its obligation to deny tax-exempt status to racially ...
523 U.S. 75 (1998) | Cited 2892 times
... Petitioner Oncale filed a complaint against his employer, respondent Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc., claiming that sexual harassment directed against him by respondent coworkers in their workplace constituted "discriminat[ion] ... because of ... sex" prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights ...
833 F.2d 128 (1987) | Cited 2855 times
... CHOY, Senior Circuit Judge: Ann Malone appeals the district court's decision, following Malone's violation of a pretrial order, to dismiss with prejudice her suit against the United States Postal Services. We affirm. BACKGROUND Ann Malone brought suit against the United States Postal Service ...
103 S. Ct. 897 (1983) | Cited 2831 times
... JUSTICE STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court. This case arises out of a dispute between parties to a multi-employer collective-bargaining agreement. The plaintiff unions allege that, in violation of the antitrust laws, the multi-employer association and its members coerced certain third ...
532 U.S. 268 (2001) | Cited 2798 times
... on petition for writ of Certiorari To The United States Court Of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 255, as amended, 42 U. S. C. §2000e-3(a), it is unlawful "for an employer to discriminate against any of his employees ... because [the employee] ...
144 F.3d 664 (1998) | Cited 2613 times
... PUBLISH APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO (D.C. No. 95-M-2934) Plaintiff-Appellant Darla Adler appeals from summary judgment granted in favor of Defendant-Appellee Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. on her Title VII claim for hostile work environment sexual harassment ...
107 S. Ct. 1542 (1987) | Cited 2563 times
... JUSTICE O'CONNOR delivered the opinion of the Court. In Pilot Life Ins. Co. v. Dedeaux, ante, p. 41, the Court held that state common law causes of action asserting improper processing of a claim for benefits under an employee benefit plan regulated by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ...
111 S. Ct. 453 (1990) | Cited 2516 times
... CHIEF JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court. In April 1986, petitioner, Shirley Irwin, was fired from his job by the Veterans' Administration (VA), which was subsequently redesignated as respondent Department of Veterans Affairs. Irwin contacted an equal employment opportunity ...
107 S. Ct. 1549 (1987) | Cited 2515 times
... JUSTICE O'CONNOR delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents the question whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 88 Stat. 829, as amended, 29 U. S. C. § 1001 et seq., pre-empts state common law tort and contract actions asserting improper processing of a ...
103 S. Ct. 2281 (1983) | Cited 2502 times
... JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. Each of these cases arose as a suit by an employee or employees against an employer and a union, alleging that the employer had breached a provision of a collective-bargaining agreement, and that the union had breached its duty of fair ...
102 S. Ct. 2364 (1982) | Cited 2466 times
... JUSTICE STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court. The question presented is whether respondent Falcon, who complained that petitioner did not promote him because he is a Mexican-American, was properly permitted to maintain a class action on behalf of Mexican-American applicants for employment ...
102 S. Ct. 2515 (1982) | Cited 2460 times
... CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered the opinion of the Court. We granted certiorari to determine whether a federal court should abstain from considering a challenge to the constitutionality of disciplinary rules that are the subject of pending state disciplinary proceedings within the jurisdiction of ...
94 S. Ct. 669 (1974) | Cited 2459 times
... MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court. The respondents are 19 named individuals who commenced this civil rights action, individually and on behalf of a class of citizens of the city of Cairo, Illinois, against the State's Attorney for Alexander County, Illinois, his investigator, ...
110 S. Ct. 2447 (1990) | Cited 2440 times
... This case presents three issues related to the application of Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: whether a district court may impose Rule 11 sanctions on a plaintiff who has voluntarily dismissed his complaint pursuant to Rule 41(a)(1)(i) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; what ...
526 U.S. 40 (1999) | Cited 2432 times
... Opinion of the Court AMERICAN MFRS. MUT. INS. CO. v. SULLIVAN ____ U. S. ____ (1999) NOTICE: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the preliminary print of the United States Reports. Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United ...
32 F.3d 759 (1994) | Cited 2418 times
... Opinion OF THE COURT BECKER, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff Luis A. Fuentes appeals from the district court's grant of summary judgment for the defendants, the New Jersey Casino Control Commission (the "Commission") and Commission Chairman Steven Perskie, in this national origin employment ...
679 F.2d 1350 (1982) | Cited 2410 times
... An employer brought this declaratory judgment action against the United States Department of Labor seeking a ruling that the employer was free from liability arising under the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"). 1 The plaintiff employer based its claim upon a settlement agreement signed by a group ...
102 S. Ct. 1127 (1982) | Cited 2407 times
... JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court. The primary question in these cases is whether the statutory time limit for filing charges under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 253, as amended, 42 U. S. C. § 2000e et seq. (1970 ed.) is a jurisdictional prerequisite to a suit ...
103 S. Ct. 2890 (1983) | Cited 2382 times
... JUSTICE BLACKMUN delivered the opinion of the Court. New York's Human Rights Law forbids discrimination in employment, including discrimination in employee benefit plans on the basis of pregnancy. The State's Disability Benefits Law requires employers to pay sick-leave benefits to employees unable ...
896 F.2d 1542 (1989) | Cited 2358 times
... STEPHEN REINHARDT, Circuit Judge: This case involves the worldwide television rights to a number of Laurel and Hardy silent films ("the silent subjects"). Appellee's predecessor in interest, Hal Roach, Inc., and appellant Richard Feiner and Company, Inc. ("Feiner & Co.") entered into a written ...
222 F.3d 99 (2000) | Cited 2352 times
... Argued: November 3, 1999 Appeal from two orders of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Lawrence M. McKenna, Judge) insofar as they denied defendants-appellants' motion for summary judgment. The plaintiff cross-appeals from the orders insofar as they dismissed ...
96 S. Ct. 612 (1976) | Cited 2330 times
... PER CURIAM. These appeals present constitutional challenges to the key provisions of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, (Act) and related provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, all as amended in 1974. 1 The Court of Appeals, in sustaining the legislation in large part ...
362 F.3d 28 (2004) | Cited 2288 times
... Argued: November 21, 2003 Plaintiff Darline Halloran appeals from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York (Sharpe, Mag. J.), affirming the decision of the Commissioner of Social Security ("the Commissioner"), who denied Halloran's claim for ...
549 F.2d 884 (1977) | Cited 2282 times
... HUNTER, Circuit Judge: Plaintiff mortgagors appeal from the dismissal of their civil antitrust suit against their mortgagee, First Federal Savings and Loan Association ("First Federal"), the mortgagee's law firm, Johnstone & O'Dwyer, and the directors of First Federal. Plaintiffs brought a class ...
427 F.3d 1211 (2005) | Cited 2230 times
... FOR PUBLICATION OPINION Argued and Submitted September 15, 2005 -- Portland, Oregon Before: Raymond C. Fisher, Ronald M. Gould, and Carlos T. Bea, Circuit Judges. Jana Bayliss appeals the district court's affirmance of the Social Security Commissioner's denial of her application for disability ...
98 S. Ct. 2380 (1978) | Cited 2228 times
... MR. JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. Respondents are the representative plaintiffs in a class action brought under Fed. Rule Civ. Proc. 23 (b)(3). They sought to require petitioners, the defendants below, to help compile a list of the names and addresses of the members of the ...
93 S. Ct. 1278 (1973) | Cited 2179 times
... MR. JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. This suit attacking the Texas system of financing public education was initiated by Mexican-American parents whose children attend the elementary and secondary schools in the Edgewood Independent School District, an urban school district ...
104 S. Ct. 892 (1984) | Cited 2170 times
... JUSTICE BLACKMUN delivered the opinion of the Court. This case raises issues concerning the claim preclusive effect 1 of a state-court judgment in the context of a subsequent suit, under 42 U. S. C. §§ 1983 and 1985 (1976 ed., Supp. V), in federal court. I Petitioner, Dr. Ethel D. Migra, was ...
96 S. Ct. 2040 (1976) | Cited 2167 times
... MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court. This case involves the validity of a qualifying test administered to applicants for positions as police officers in the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department. The test was sustained by the District Court but invalidated by the ...
91 S. Ct. 849 (1971) | Cited 2152 times
... MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered the opinion of the Court. We granted the writ in this case to resolve the question whether an employer is prohibited by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII, from requiring a high school education or passing of a standardized general intelligence test as ...
65 S. Ct. 161 (1944) | Cited 2128 times
... MR. JUSTICE JACKSON delivered the opinion of the Court. Seven employees of the Swift and Company packing plant at Fort Worth, Texas, brought an action under the Fair Labor Standards Act to recover overtime, liquidated damages, and attorneys' fees, totaling approximately $77,000. The District Court ...
96 S. Ct. 2074 (1976) | Cited 2108 times
... MR. JUSTICE STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court. Acting on the recommendation of the Chief of Police, the City Manager of Marion, N.C., terminated petitioner's employment as a policeman without affording him a hearing to determine the sufficiency of the cause for his discharge. Petitioner ...
96 S. Ct. 1917 (1976) | Cited 2105 times
... MR. JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. Several indigents and organizations composed of indigents brought this suit against the Secretary of the Treasury and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. They asserted that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) violated the Internal Revenue ...
94 S. Ct. 1800 (1974) | Cited 2092 times
... MR. JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. This case concerns the constitutionality of certain regulations promulgated by appellant Procunier in his capacity as Director of the California Department of Corrections. Appellees brought a class action on behalf of themselves and all other ...
511 U.S. 244 (1994) | Cited 2083 times
... JUSTICE STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court. The Civil Rights Act of 1991 (1991 Act or Act) creates a right to recover compensatory and punitive damages for certain violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. See Rev. Stat. § 1977A(a), 42 U.S.C. § 1981a(a), as added by § 102 of ...
94 S. Ct. 1011 (1974) | Cited 2077 times
... MR. JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. This case concerns the proper relationship between federal courts and the grievance-arbitration machinery of collective-bargaining agreements in the resolution and enforcement of an individual's rights to equal employment opportunities under ...
69 S. Ct. 85 (1948) | Cited 2044 times
... MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court. The questions presented chiefly involve the scope and application of the statute which authorizes a citizen to prosecute or defend actions in federal courts "without being required to prepay fees or costs or for the printing of the record in ...
201 F.3d 110 (2000) | Cited 2043 times
... Argued: November 3, 1999 Plaintiff appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Preska, J.), granting defendant's motion to dismiss the complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. AFFIRMED. BACKGROUND In 1982, Natalia Makarova was ...
95 S. Ct. 2362 (1975) | Cited 2030 times
... MR. JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court. These consolidated cases raise two important questions under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 253, as amended by the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972, 86 Stat. 103, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. (1970 ed. and Supp. ...
101 S. Ct. 677 (1981) | Cited 2022 times
... JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court. We granted certiorari in this case to address important questions concerning the scope of the attorney-client privilege in the corporate context and the applicability of the work-product doctrine in proceedings to enforce tax summonses. 445 ...
937 F.2d 580 (1991) | Cited 1995 times
... GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge. Patricia Edwards appeals the district court's 1 order affirming the denial of her application for disability insurance benefits. We affirm the district court's order. I. BACKGROUND Edwards was born in May 1947 and is a high school graduate. In 1969 she began ...
124 S.Ct. 376 (2003) | Cited 1990 times
... Under the Social Security Act, the Social Security Administration (SSA) is authorized to pay disability insurance benefits and Supplemental Security Income to persons who have a "disability." A person qualifies as disabled, and thereby eligible for such benefits, "only if his physical or mental ...
95 S. Ct. 449 (1974) | Cited 1968 times
... MR. JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court. Respondent Metropolitan Edison Co. is a privately owned and operated Pennsylvania corporation which holds a certificate of public convenience issued by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission empowering it to deliver electricity to a ...
93 S. Ct. 1146 (1973) | Cited 1966 times
... MR. JUSTICE MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court. Appellant, the mother of an illegitimate child, brought this action in United States District Court on behalf of herself, her child, and others similarly situated to enjoin the "discriminatory application" of Art. 602 of the Texas ...
7 F.3d 1130 (1993) | Cited 1961 times
... MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge: Plaintiff-appellant Mylan Laboratories, Inc. ("Mylan") has appealed the dismissal of its Third Amended Complaint for failure to state a claim pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6). The district court dismissed all of Mylan's claims with prejudice. On ...
89 S. Ct. 1944 (1969) | Cited 1957 times
... MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court. In November 1966, petitioner Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., was duly elected from the 18th Congressional District of New York to serve in the United States House of Representatives for the 90th Congress. However, pursuant to a House ...
733 F.2d 646 (1984) | Cited 1956 times
... SKOPIL, Circuit Judge: Thomas Jones, Jr., dba T.A. Jones & Associates, ("Jones"), brought an action pro se against the Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles ("CRA"), employees of CRA, two bonding companies, agents of the bonding companies, and three City of Los Angeles employees. The ...
90 S. Ct. 827 (1970) | Cited 1913 times
... MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioners sell data processing services to businesses generally. In this suit they seek to challenge a ruling by respondent Comptroller of the Currency that, as an incident to their banking services, national banks, including respondent ...
224 F.3d 496 (2000) | Cited 1889 times
... Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas Relying partly on the advice of Morgan Stanley, later Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. ("Morgan Stanley"), the board of directors and stockholders of Allwaste, Inc. ("Allwaste"), voted to merge with Philip Services ...
46 S. Ct. 126 (1926) | Cited 1886 times
... MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court. This is a suit to enjoin certain state and county officers of Oklahoma from enforcing the provisions of § 7255 and § 7257, Compiled Oklahoma Statutes, 1921, challenged as unconstitutional. Section 7255 creates an eight-hour day for all ...
929 F.2d 604 (1991) | Cited 1872 times
... COX, Circuit Judge Plaintiffs Bill Clark, Herbert Futch, Austin Hurst, Louis Sliker and William Barrineau appeal the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant Coats & Clark, Inc. Because we conclude that the district court improperly construed the Supreme Court's decision in ...
5 F.3d 1255 (1993) | Cited 1842 times
... THOMPSON, Circuit Judge: These consolidated appeals arise from complaints filed by School District 1J, Multnomah County, Oregon (the "School District"). The School District sought to recover the cost of removing asbestos-containing products from over 100 school buildings. The defendants are ...
101 S. Ct. 2748 (1981) | Cited 1839 times
... JUSTICE BLACKMUN delivered the opinion of the Court. In Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658 (1978), this Court for the first time held that a local government was subject to suit as a "person" within the meaning of 42 U. S. C. § 1983. Aside from concluding that a ...