95 Cited authorities

  1. Franchise Tax Bd. v. Laborers Vacation Trust

    463 U.S. 1 (1983)   Cited 10,421 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a case may not be removed to federal court on the basis of a preemption defense even where "both parties admit that the defense is the only question truly at issue in the case"
  2. Lewis v. Continental Bank Corp.

    494 U.S. 472 (1990)   Cited 3,289 times   7 Legal Analyses
    Holding mootness destroys subject-matter jurisdiction
  3. Equal Emp't Opportunity Comm'n v. Waffle House, Inc.

    534 U.S. 279 (2002)   Cited 1,483 times   15 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a private arbitration agreement between an employee and an employer could not bind a nonparty governmental agency, the EEOC, and thus that the agreement—which was enforceable against the employee under the Federal Arbitration Act—did not limit the types of remedies the agency could seek in an enforcement action it initiated under Title VII
  4. Stoneridge Investment Partners, LLC v. Scientific-Atlanta, Inc.

    552 U.S. 148 (2008)   Cited 1,181 times   80 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the fraud-on-the-market presumption did not apply because business partners' "deceptive acts were not communicated to the public"
  5. Alvarez v. Prospect Hosp

    68 N.Y.2d 320 (N.Y. 1986)   Cited 21,149 times   8 Legal Analyses
    Finding summary judgment appropriate by relying on a treating doctor's unrebutted deposition testimony
  6. Carey v. Piphus

    435 U.S. 247 (1978)   Cited 3,567 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that nominal damages are appropriate when a plaintiff's constitutional rights have been infringed but he cannot show further injury
  7. Zuckerman v. City of N.Y.

    49 N.Y.2d 557 (N.Y. 1980)   Cited 24,777 times   9 Legal Analyses
    Granting summary judgment as the city's arguments were considered speculation and this was "patently inadequate to establish the existence of a factual issue requiring a trial . . ."
  8. Memphis Community School Dist. v. Stachura

    477 U.S. 299 (1986)   Cited 1,314 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that damages awards under section 1983 "may include not only out-of-pocket loss and other monetary harms, but also such injuries such as . . . mental anguish and suffering"
  9. People v. Caban

    5 N.Y.3d 143 (N.Y. 2005)   Cited 1,636 times
    Holding conspirators' statements admissible as verbal acts to prove existence of conspiracy but not, absent independent evidence of the conspiracy, for their truth
  10. Marmet Health Care Ctr., Inc. v. Brown

    565 U.S. 530 (2012)   Cited 348 times   34 Legal Analyses
    Holding that West Virginia's prohibition against predispute agreements to arbitrate personal-injury or wrongful-death claims against nursing homes was preempted by the FAA
  11. Section 78a - Short title

    15 U.S.C. § 78a   Cited 1,721 times   39 Legal Analyses
    Emphasizing considerations of federalism in SLUSA's legislative findings
  12. Section 78bb - Effect on existing law

    15 U.S.C. § 78bb   Cited 906 times   30 Legal Analyses
    Adopting definition of "covered security" found in paragraphs and of section 18(b) of the Securities Act of 1933