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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, ...
106 S. Ct. 2932 (1986) | Cited 8289 times
... JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court. In this case, we consider the claims of school officials and schoolchildren in 23 northern Mississippi counties that they are being unlawfully denied the economic benefits of public school lands granted by the United States to the State of ...
68 S. Ct. 525 (1948) | Cited 6988 times
... MR. JUSTICE REED delivered the opinion of the Court. The United States instituted this suit on August 15, 1940, in the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia against United States Gypsum Company, five other corporate defendants, and seven individual defendants, as a ...
95 S. Ct. 2197 (1975) | Cited 6877 times
... # T MR. JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioners, various organizations and individuals resident in the Rochester, N. Y., metropolitan area, brought this action in the District Court for the Western District of New York against the town of Penfield, an incorporated ...
96 S. Ct. 1236 (1976) | Cited 5064 times
... MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. The McCarran Amendment, 66 Stat. 560, 43 U.S.C. § 666, provides that "consent is hereby given to join the United States as a defendant in any suit (1) for the adjudication of rights to the use of water of a river system or other source, or ...
88 S. Ct. 1575 (1968) | Cited 4904 times
... MR. JUSTICE MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court. At issue in this case is the propriety of an award of summary judgment in favor of respondent Cities Service in a treble-damage antitrust action. The District Court held there was no genuine issue as to material facts between the parties and ...
110 S. Ct. 3177 (1990) | Cited 4741 times
... JUSTICE SCALIA delivered the opinion of the Court. In this case we must decide whether respondent, the National Wildlife Federation (hereinafter respondent), is a proper party to challenge actions of the Federal Government relating to certain public lands. I Respondent filed this action in 1985 ...
103 S. Ct. 1319 (1983) | Cited 4271 times
... JUSTICE WHITE announced the judgment of the Court and delivered an opinion, in which JUSTICE MARSHALL, JUSTICE POWELL, and JUSTICE STEVENS joined. We are required in this case to determine whether the Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District, properly applied the precepts of the Fourth Amendment ...
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 ...
57 S. Ct. 163 (1936) | Cited 3785 times
... MR. JUSTICE CARDOZO delivered the opinion of the Court. The controversy hinges upon the power of a court to stay proceedings in one suit until the decision of another, and upon the propriety of using such a power in a given situation. Respondents, non-registered holding companies brought suit in ...
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 ...
102 S. Ct. 752 (1982) | Cited 3350 times
... JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court. I Article IV, § 3, cl. 2, of the Constitution vests Congress with the "Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the . . . Property belonging to the United States." Shortly after the termination of hostilities ...
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 ...
495 F.3d 191 (2007) | Cited 2811 times
... REVISED August 30, 2007 Before KING, DeMOSS, and OWEN, Circuit Judges. On the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, devastating portions of Louisiana and Mississippi. In the City of New Orleans, some of the most significant damage occurred ...
975 F.2d 604 (1992) | Cited 2780 times
... FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judge: Dairl Johnson 1 appeals the district court's denial of his motion to amend his complaint. The court found that Johnson failed to demonstrate circumstances that would permit joining an additional party after the joinder cut-off date, and granted summary judgment in favor ...
97 S. Ct. 555 (1977) | Cited 2750 times
... MR. JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. In 1971 respondent Metropolitan Housing Development Corporation (MHDC) applied to petitioner, the Village of Arlington Heights, Ill., for the rezoning of a 15-acre parcel from single-family to multiple-family classification. Using federal ...
527 U.S. 1 (1999) | Cited 2693 times
... Opinion of the Court NEDER v. UNITED STATES ____ U. S. ____ (1999) On Writ Of Certiorari To The United States Court Of Appeals For The Eleventh Circuit Petitioner was tried on charges of violating a number of federal criminal statutes penalizing fraud. It is agreed that the District Court erred ...
572 F.3d 176 (2009) | Cited 2216 times
... PUBLISHED Argued: October 29, 2008 Before WILLIAMS, Chief Judge, 1 MICHAEL, Circuit Judge, and John T. COPENHAVER, Jr., United States District Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia, sitting by designation. Affirmed by published opinion. Judge Copenhaver wrote the opinion, in which ...
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 ...
61 S. Ct. 339 (1940) | Cited 2139 times
... MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court. The Colorado Supreme Court held null and void a judgment of the Wyoming court against the claim of Milliken that that judgment was entitled to full faith and credit under the federal constitution. 101 Colo. 564; 76 P. 2d 420; 105 Colo. 532; ...
92 S. Ct. 1361 (1972) | Cited 1965 times
... MR. JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court. I The Mineral King Valley is an area of great natural beauty nestled in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Tulare County, California, adjacent to Sequoia National Park. It has been part of the Sequoia National Forest since 1926, and is ...
97 S. Ct. 2569 (1977) | Cited 1960 times
... MR. JUSTICE MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court. The controversy in this case concerns the constitutionality of a Delaware statute that allows a court of that State to take jurisdiction of a lawsuit by sequestering any property of the defendant that happens to be located in Delaware. ...
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 ...
87 S. Ct. 1727 (1967) | Cited 1919 times
... MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court. In Frank v. Maryland, 359 U.S. 360, this Court upheld, by a five-to-four vote, a state court conviction of a homeowner who refused to permit a municipal health inspector to enter and inspect his premises without a search warrant. In Eaton v. ...
85 S. Ct. 792 (1965) | Cited 1901 times
... MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court. At issue in this case is the effect of Executive Order No. 8979 and Public Land Order No. 487 upon the Secretary of the Interior's authority to issue oil and gas leases. Between October 15, 1954, and January 28, 1955, D. J. Griffin and ...
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 ...
105 S. Ct. 3108 (1985) | Cited 1788 times
... JUSTICE BLACKMUN delivered the opinion of the Court. Respondent, the owner of a tract of land it was developing as a residential subdivision, sued petitioners, the Williamson County (Tennessee) Regional Planning Commission and its members and staff, in United States District Court, alleging that ...
63 S. Ct. 1098 (1943) | Cited 1717 times
... MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court. In this proceeding brought in a federal district court, the Sun Oil Co. attacked the validity of an order of the Texas Railroad Commission granting the petitioner Burford a permit to drill four wells on a small plot of land in the East ...
109 S. Ct. 2746 (1989) | Cited 1690 times
... JUSTICE KENNEDY delivered the opinion of the Court. In the southeast portion of New York City's Central Park, about 10 blocks upward from the park's beginning point at 59th Street, there is an amphitheater and stage structure known as the Naumberg Acoustic Bandshell. The bandshell faces west ...
56 S. Ct. 466 (1936) | Cited 1658 times
... MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court. On January 4, 1934, the Tennessee Valley Authority, an agency of the Federal Government, 1 entered into a contract with the Alabama Power Company, providing (1) for the purchase by the Authority from the Power Company of certain ...
108 S. Ct. 1496 (1988) | Cited 1632 times
... CHIEF JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court. Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) provides: "Other crimes, wrongs, or acts. -- Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show action in conformity therewith. It may, however, ...
425 N.W.2d 580 (1988) | Cited 1583 times
... 1. The court of appeals erroneously considered plaintiff's new argument that her legal malpractice action accrued six years after the allegedly negligent act; the issue was neither preserved for appeal nor decidable on the record. 2. Service of process was ineffective to timely commence the action ...
645 F.2d 404 (1981) | Cited 1573 times
... ON PETITIONS FOR REHEARING AND PETITION FOR REHEARING EN BANC (Opinion December 11, 1980, 5 Cir., 632 F.2d 579). IT IS ORDERED that the petition for rehearing filed by the plaintiffs-appellants in the above entitled and numbered cause is hereby DENIED and, no member of this panel or judge in ...
65 S. Ct. 631 (1945) | Cited 1564 times
... MR. JUSTICE RUTLEDGE delivered the opinion of the Court. The proceeding is for the condemnation of land in Madison County, Illinois, under the War Purposes Act of 1917. 1 The question for review is whether orders entered in the course of the proceedings are appealable as "final decisions" ...
101 S. Ct. 2424 (1981) | Cited 1558 times
... JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court. The only question presented in this case is whether the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit validly created an exception to the doctrine of res judicata. The court held that res judicata does not bar relitigation of an unappealed adverse ...
29 S. Ct. 42 (1908) | Cited 1539 times
... MR. JUSTICE MOODY, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court. Two questions of law were raised by the demurrer to the bill, were brought here by appeal, and have been argued before us. They are, first, whether that part of the act of Congress of June 29, 1906 (34 ...
29 F.3d 148 (1994) | Cited 1480 times
... Opinion HAMILTON, Circuit Judge: The plaintiffs-appellants, Patrick Mulcahey, Anna Mulcahey, Albert Parsons, and Ruth Parsons, individually and as representatives of an uncertified class of persons similarly situated (collectively referred to as "the Plaintiffs"), are residential and commercial ...
98 S. Ct. 2646 (1978) | Cited 1469 times
... MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court. The question presented is whether a city may, as part of a comprehensive program to preserve historic landmarks and historic districts, place restrictions on the development of individual historic landmarks -- in addition to those imposed by ...
103 S. Ct. 2961 (1983) | Cited 1458 times
... JUSTICE MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court. The principal question in this case is whether the United States is accountable in money damages for alleged breaches of trust in connection with its management of forest resources on allotted lands of the Quinault Indian Reservation. I A In ...
945 F.2d 765 (1991) | Cited 1444 times
... ERVIN, Chief Judge Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company brought this action under the Quiet Title Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2409a, to quiet title in certain real property in northern Virginia. We find, as did the district court, that the action is barred by the Quiet Title Act's statute of ...
47 S. Ct. 114 (1926) | Cited 1417 times
... MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court. The Village of Euclid is an Ohio municipal corporation. It adjoins and practically is a suburb of the City of Cleveland. Its estimated population is between 5,000 and 10,000, and its area from twelve to fourteen square miles, the greater ...
101 S. Ct. 183 (1980) | Cited 1415 times
... JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court. In January 1973, a judge of the 229th District Court of Duval County, Tex., enjoined the production of minerals from certain oil leases owned by respondents. In June 1975, the injunction was dissolved by an appellate court as having been illegally ...
111 S. Ct. 1267 (1991) | Cited 1329 times
... When the events in this case occurred, the Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933, 12 U. S. C. §§ 1461-1470, 1 provided for the chartering and regulation of federal savings and loan associations (FSLA's). Section 1464(a) authorized the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB) "under such rules and regulations ...
132 F.3d 1359 (1998) | Cited 1321 times
... PUBLISH This case concerns a highly politicized dispute over plaintiff- appellee GJR Investments, Inc.'s desire to construct an RV campground on its property on Perdido Key in Escambia County, Florida. Escambia County eventually granted GJR a permit to build the campground, although GJR had to ...
140 N.J. 366 (1995) | Cited 1320 times
... (This syllabus is not part of the opinion of the Court. It has been prepared by the Office of the Clerk for the convenience of the reader. It has been neither reviewed nor approved by the Supreme Court. Please note that, in the interests of brevity, portions of any opinion may not have been ...
912 F.2d 1238 (1990) | Cited 1314 times
... EBEL, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff, Applied Genetics International, Inc. (AGI), appeals from a summary judgment in favor of defendants. AGI's suit was brought in diversity and therefore Wyoming substantive law applies. AGI argues that the district court erred in holding that a settlement and release ...
107 S. Ct. 1519 (1987) | Cited 1283 times
... JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. The principal issue in this case is whether a federal district court lawfully may enjoin a plaintiff who has prevailed in a trial in state court from executing the judgment in its favor pending appeal of that judgment to a state appellate court. ...
81 S. Ct. 856 (1961) | Cited 1263 times
... MR. JUSTICE CLARK delivered the opinion of the Court. In this action for declaratory and injunctive relief it is admitted that the Eagle Coffee Shoppe, Inc., a restaurant located within an off-street automobile parking building in Wilmington, Delaware, has refused to serve appellant food or drink ...
95 S. Ct. 1200 (1975) | Cited 1249 times
... MR. JUSTICE REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court. This case requires that we decide whether our decision in Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37 (1971), bars a federal district court from intervening in a state civil proceeding such as this, when the proceeding is based on a state statute ...
70 S. Ct. 876 (1950) | Cited 1221 times
... MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER delivered the opinion of the Court. In 1945, Michigan-Wisconsin Pipe Line Company sought from the Federal Power Commission a certificate of public convenience and necessity, required by § 7 (c) of the Natural Gas Act, 52 Stat. 825, as amended, 15 U. S. C. § 717f (c), for ...
100 S. Ct. 1349 (1980) | Cited 1189 times
... MR. JUSTICE MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents the question whether the Indian General Allotment Act of 1887 authorizes the award of money damages against the United States for alleged mismanagement of forests located on lands allotted to Indians under that Act. I In ...
68 S. Ct. 836 (1948) | Cited 1178 times
... MR. CHIEF JUSTICE VINSON delivered the opinion of the Court. These cases present for our consideration questions relating to the validity of court enforcement of private agreements, generally described as restrictive covenants, which have as their purpose the exclusion of persons of designated ...
109 S. Ct. 1851 (1989) | Cited 1164 times
... JUSTICE STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court. This case is a companion to Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council, ante, p. 332. It arises out of a controversial decision to construct a dam at Elk Creek in the Rogue River Basin in southwest Oregon. In addition to the question whether an ...
100 S. Ct. 1460 (1980) | Cited 1136 times
... MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered the opinion of the Court. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54 (b) allows a district court dealing with multiple claims or multiple parties to direct the entry of final judgment as to fewer than all of the claims or parties; to do so, the court must make an express ...
103 S. Ct. 1382 (1983) | Cited 1130 times
... JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court. The problem of irrigating the arid lands of the Colorado River Basin has been confronted by the peoples of that region for 2,000 years and by Congress and this Court for many decades. Today we conclude another chapter in this original action ...
104 S. Ct. 2118 (1984) | Cited 1108 times
... JUSTICE STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court. Section 28.04 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code prohibits the posting of signs on public property. 1 The question presented is whether that prohibition abridges appellees' freedom of speech within the meaning of the First Amendment. 2 In ...
85 S. Ct. 1585 (1965) | Cited 1103 times
... MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court. This action began as a suit by the trustees of the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund against the respondents, individually and as owners of Phillips Brothers Coal Company, a partnership, seeking to recover some $55,000 ...
31 S. Ct. 279 (1911) | Cited 1099 times
... MR. JUSTICE McKENNA, after stating the facts as above, delivered the opinion of the court. It will be observed that the order of the Commission required appellants to cease and desist from granting Young the alleged undue preference for a period of not less than two years from September 1, 1908 ...
464 F.3d 480 (2006) | Cited 1098 times
... PUBLISHED Argued: May 25, 2006 Before MOTZ, TRAXLER, and SHEDD, Circuit Judges. Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded by published opinion. Judge Motz wrote the opinion, in which Judge Shedd joined. Judge Traxler wrote a separate opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part. ...
94 S. Ct. 756 (1974) | Cited 1095 times
... MR. JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court. This case involves an aspect of the relationship between a statute of limitations and the provisions of Fed. Rule Civ. Proc. 23 regulating class actions in the federal courts. While the question presented is a limited one, the details of the ...
91 S. Ct. 507 (1971) | Cited 1094 times
... MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court. Appellee is an adult resident of Hartford, Wis. She brought suit in a federal district court in Wisconsin to have a Wisconsin statute declared unconstitutional. 1 A three-judge court was convened, 28 U. S. C. § 2281. That court, by a divided ...
90 S. Ct. 844 (1970) | Cited 1083 times
... MR. JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court. The appellee is a company engaged in extensive commercial farming operations in Arizona and California. The appellant is the official charged with enforcing the Arizona Fruit and Vegetable Standardization Act. 1 A provision of the Act ...
104 S. Ct. 2755 (1984) | Cited 1072 times
... CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered the opinion of the Court. We granted certiorari in these two cases to determine whether the United States may be held liable under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U. S. C. § 2671 et seq., for the negligence of the Federal Aviation Administration in certificating ...
78 S. Ct. 514 (1958) | Cited 1056 times
... MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court. In 1864 and 1870 Congress granted the predecessor of the Northern Pacific Railway Company approximately forty million acres of land in several Northwestern States and Territories to facilitate its construction of a railroad line from Lake ...
99 S. Ct. 1601 (1979) | Cited 1052 times
... MR. JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, 82 Stat. 81, as amended, 42 U. S. C. § 3601 et seq., commonly known as the Fair Housing Act of 1968 (Act), broadly prohibits discrimination in housing throughout the Nation. This case presents both ...
89 S. Ct. 1820 (1969) | Cited 1047 times
... MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court. Respondents instituted a garnishment action against petitioner as defendant and Miller Harris Instrument Co., her employer, as garnishee. The complaint alleged a claim of $420 on a promissory note. The garnishee filed its answer stating ...
79 S. Ct. 948 (1959) | Cited 1031 times
... MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioner, Beacon Theatres, Inc., sought by mandamus to require a district judge in the Southern District of California to vacate certain orders alleged to deprive it of a jury trial of issues arising in a suit brought against it by Fox West ...
92 S. Ct. 1456 (1972) | Cited 1029 times
... MR. JUSTICE BLACKMUN delivered the opinion of the Court. These two consolidated cases center in the Ute Indian Supervision Termination Act of August 27, 1954 (hereafter Partition Act), 68 Stat. 868, as amended, 70 Stat. 936 and 76 Stat. 597, 25 U. S. C. §§ 677-677aa; the Securities Exchange Act of ...
66 S. Ct. 1100 (1946) | Cited 1020 times
... MR. JUSTICE MURPHY delivered the opinion of the Court. This case involves the application of § 2 (1) of the Securities Act of 1933 1 to an offering of units of a citrus grove development coupled with a contract for cultivating, marketing and remitting the net proceeds to the investor. The ...
126 S.Ct. 606 (2005) | Cited 1002 times
... 546 U. S. ____ (2005) This case concerns 28 U. S. C. §1441, which authorizes the removal of civil actions from state court to federal court when the action initiated in state court is one that could have been brought, originally, in a federal district court. §1441(a). When federal-court ...
168 S.W.3d 802 (2005) | Cited 987 times
... Argued October 19, 2004 JUSTICE BRISTER delivered the opinion of the Court, in which C HIEF JUSTICE JEFFERSON, J USTICE HECHT, J USTICE WAINWRIGHT, and J USTICE GREEN joined, and in which J USTICE O'N EILL and J USTICE MEDINA joined as to Parts I through IV. JUSTICE O'N EILL filed a concurring ...
102 S. Ct. 3014 (1982) | Cited 980 times
... JUSTICE BLACKMUN delivered the opinion of the Court. At issue in this case is the pre-emptive effect of a regulation, issued by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (Board), permitting federal savings and loan associations to use "due-on-sale" clauses in their mortgage contracts. Appellees dispute ...
62 S. Ct. 676 (1942) | Cited 972 times
... MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court. Respondent instituted this suit in the United States District Court for the Eastern Division of the Eastern District of Missouri on a demand note for $5000, executed by petitioner in 1933 and payable to the Belleville Bank & Trust Co., ...
98 S. Ct. 2279 (1978) | Cited 972 times
... MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered the opinion of the Court. The questions presented in this case are (a) whether the Endangered Species Act of 1973 requires a court to enjoin the operation of a virtually completed federal dam -- which had been authorized prior to 1973 -- when, pursuant to ...
526 U.S. 687 (1999) | Cited 946 times
... Opinion of the Court MONTEREY v. DEL MONTE DUNES ATMONTEREY, LTD. ____ U. S. ____ (1999) On Writ Of Certiorari To The United States Court Of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit Justice Kennedy delivered the opinion of the Court, except as to Part IV-A-2. This case began with attempts by the ...
521 U.S. 261 (1997) | Cited 908 times
... ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT Justice Kennedy announced the judgment of the Court and delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I, II-A, and III, and an opinion with respect to Parts II-B, II-C, and II-D, in which The Chief Justice ...
87 S. Ct. 1776 (1967) | Cited 900 times
... MR. JUSTICE CLARK delivered the opinion of the Court. These two federal estate tax cases present a common issue for our determination: Whether a federal court or agency in a federal estate tax controversy is conclusively bound by a state trial court adjudication of property rights or ...
43 S. Ct. 158 (1922) | Cited 891 times
... MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court. This is a bill in equity brought by the defendants in error to prevent the Pennsylvania Coal Company from mining under their property in such way as to remove the supports and cause a subsidence of the surface and of their house. The bill sets ...
311 F.3d 198 (2002) | Cited 885 times
... PRECEDENTIAL Argued on January 17, 2002 OPINION OF THE COURT This appeal marks the second time that we address the underlying dispute between the parties. The controversy relates to the landmark Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan and arises out of the proxy solicitation in connection with ...
128 S.Ct. 1396 (2008) | Cited 883 times
... Opinion of the Court The Federal Arbitration Act (FAA or Act), 9 U. S. C. §1 et seq., provides for expedited judicial review to confirm, vacate, or modify arbitration awards. §§9-11 (2000 ed. and Supp. V). The question here is whether statutory grounds for prompt vacatur and modification may be ...
29 Cal.4th 82 (2002) | Cited 875 times
... The question presented is whether this action based on the defendant's having filed counterclaims in a prior, unrelated proceeding in federal court, is one "arising from" activity protected by Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16 (section 425.16; the anti-SLAPP statute), which provides for early ...
98 S. Ct. 1554 (1978) | Cited 863 times
... MR. JUSTICE POWELL delivered the opinion of the Court. This is an action brought under 42 U. S. C. § 1983 by homeowners in Memphis, Tenn., seeking declaratory and injunctive relief and damages against a municipal utility and several of its officers and employees for termination of utility service ...
505 U.S. 1003 (1992) | Cited 862 times
... JUSTICE SCALIA delivered the opinion of the Court. In 1986, petitioner David H. Lucas paid $975,000 for two residential lots on the Isle of Palms in Charleston County, South Carolina, on which he intended to build single- family homes. In 1988, however, the South Carolina Legislature enacted the ...
92 S. Ct. 2151 (1972) | Cited 860 times
... MR. JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court. The federal anti-injunction statute provides that a federal court "may not grant an injunction to stay proceedings in a State court except as expressly authorized by Act of Congress, or where necessary in aid of its jurisdiction, or to ...
853 F.2d 789 (1988) | Cited 850 times
... Plaintiff-appellant brought this action against defendants-appellees claiming they had violated his First Amendment right to free speech and Fourteenth Amendment right to due process by wrongfully discharging him from public employment. Defendants thereafter filed a motion for summary judgment, ...
597 F.2d 406 (1979) | Cited 848 times
... Plaintiff appeals from the grant of summary judgment in favor of three individual and two corporate defendants against whom it had brought a diversity action alleging breach of contract and tortious interference with contractual relationships. The district court concluded as a matter of law that on ...
810 F.2d 1282 (1987) | Cited 843 times
... Before WIDENER, HALL and SPROUSE, Circuit Judges. SPROUSE, Circuit Judge: Pulliam Investment Company (Pulliam) appeals from the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendants, Freedom Savings and Loan Association (Freedom), Independence Investment Company (Independence), ...
43 S. Ct. 597 (1923) | Cited 823 times
... MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court. These cases were argued and will be considered and disposed of together. The first is an original suit in this Court. The other was brought in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. That court dismissed the bill and its decree was ...
96 S. Ct. 2440 (1976) | Cited 822 times
... MR. JUSTICE STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court.*fn* Zoning ordinances adopted by the city of Detroit differentiate between motion picture theaters which exhibit sexually explicit "adult" movies and those which do not. The principal question presented by this case is whether that statutory ...
25 Cal.4th 763 (2001) | Cited 813 times
... We granted review in this case to consider important issues concerning the liability of apartment owners and other business enterprises to persons injured on their premises by the criminal acts of others, a liability based solely on the business owners' negligent failure to provide adequate ...
96 S. Ct. 2737 (1976) | Cited 804 times
... MR. JUSTICE BLACKMUN delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents the issue whether the introduction into evidence of a person's business records, seized during a search of his offices, violates the Fifth Amendment's command that "[n]o person... shall be compelled in any criminal case to ...
916 S.W.2d 779 (1996) | Cited 801 times
... AFFIRMING JOHNSON, JUDGE: This appeal raises the question of the liability of homeowners for damages sustained by a social guest from a swimming pool injury. The Jefferson Circuit Court found a lack of a legal duty and granted summary judgment in favor of the homeowners. We affirm. On August 15, ...
61 S. Ct. 115 (1940) | Cited 790 times
... MR. JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court. The question is whether the Supreme Court of Illinois, by its adjudication that petitioners in this case are bound by a judgment rendered in an earlier litigation to which they were not parties, has deprived them of the due process of law ...
522 U.S. 470 (1998) | Cited 782 times
... Certiorari To The United States Court Of Appeals For The Fifth Circuit No. 96-1971. Argued January 21, 1998 After a partnership mortgaged its interest in the Louisiana equivalent of a leasehold estate to respondent Regions Bank of Louisiana (Bank), the partnership granted a second mortgage to ...
88 S. Ct. 2186 (1968) | Cited 778 times
... MR. JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court. In this case we are called upon to determine the scope and the constitutionality of an Act of Congress, 42 U. S. C. § 1982, which provides that: "All citizens of the United States shall have the same right, in every State and Territory, as ...
43 F.3d 587 (1995) | Cited 776 times
... ANDERSON, Circuit Judge: I. INTRODUCTION In this decision we assess the propriety of the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of appellee Resolution Trust Corporation based upon the D'Oench, Duhme doctrine. For the reasons that follow, we affirm the judgment of the district court. ...
106 S. Ct. 2295 (1986) | Cited 768 times
... JUSTICE BLACKMUN delivered the opinion of the Court. In this admiralty case, we must decide whether a cause of action in tort is stated when a defective product purchased in a commercial transaction malfunctions, injuring only the product itself and causing purely economic loss. The case requires ...
97 S. Ct. 1292 (1977) | Cited 766 times
... MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court. The issue in this case involves the reach and coverage of § 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 1 thereunder in the context of a Delaware short-form merger transaction used by the majority stockholder of a ...
68 S. Ct. 1 (1947) | Cited 761 times
... MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER delivered the opinion of the Court. We brought this case here because it involves a question of importance in the administration of the Federal Crop Insurance Act. 331 U.S. 798. The relevant facts may be briefly stated. Petitioner (hereinafter called the Corporation) is a ...