15 Cited authorities

  1. Grayned v. City of Rockford

    408 U.S. 104 (1972)   Cited 4,710 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a statute's words, even when "marked by flexibility and reasonable breadth, rather than meticulous specificity," are clear based on "what the ordinance as a whole prohibits"
  2. Waters v. Churchill

    511 U.S. 661 (1994)   Cited 928 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that basing a termination decision on "the word of two trusted employees, the endorsement of those employees’ reliability," and "a face-to-face meeting with the employee he fired" was reasonable and "no further time needed to be taken"
  3. United States v. Treasury Employees

    513 U.S. 454 (1995)   Cited 558 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding federal-employee honoraria ban unconstitutional
  4. Lewis v. Cowen

    165 F.3d 154 (2d Cir. 1999)   Cited 390 times
    Holding that a public employee did not forgo First Amendment protection when he refused to present proposed policy changes in a positive light to the Connecticut Gaming Policy Board
  5. Doninger v. Niehoff

    527 F.3d 41 (2d Cir. 2008)   Cited 206 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding Tinker applies to speech originating off-campus if it “would foreseeably create a risk of substantial disruption within the school environment, at least when it was similarly foreseeable that the off-campus expression might also reach campus”
  6. Hecht v. City of New York

    60 N.Y.2d 57 (N.Y. 1983)   Cited 378 times
    Upholding Appellate Division's dismissal of negligence complaint because gap in sidewalk was trivial and therefore not actionable
  7. Hahn Auto. Warehouse, Inc. v. Am. Zurich Ins. Co.

    2012 N.Y. Slip Op. 2344 (N.Y. 2012)   Cited 132 times
    Assuming there is a right to payment when the party has the contractual right to, and does, demand unconditional payment
  8. Cuff v. Valley Cent. Sch. Dist.

    677 F.3d 109 (2d Cir. 2012)   Cited 107 times
    Holding disruption was reasonably forecast when student turned in an assignment stating "blow up the school with the teachers in it" even though student did not have capacity to carry out the threat and argued that the statement was a joke
  9. Jeffries v. Harleston

    52 F.3d 9 (2d Cir. 1994)   Cited 129 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that defendant university board of trustees could not be held liable under § 1983 where legitimate motive of majority of trustees was a "superceding cause" between tainted motive of two board members and the allegedly retaliatory decision
  10. Melzer v. Bd. of Educ, City of New York

    336 F.3d 185 (2d Cir. 2003)   Cited 91 times
    Holding that defendant school board's termination of plaintiff teacher who belonged to association that advocated sexual relations between men and boys, was constitutional because board's interest in orderly operation of high school outweighed teacher's interest in commenting on areas of public concern
  11. Section 500.13 - Content and form of briefs in normal course appeals

    N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 22 § 500.13

    (a) Content. All briefs shall conform to the requirements of section 500.1 of this Part and contain a table of contents, a table of cases and authorities, questions presented, point headings, and, if necessary, a disclosure statement pursuant to section 500.1(f) of this Part. Such disclosure statement shall be included before the table of contents in the party's principal brief. Appellant's brief shall include a statement showing that the court has jurisdiction to entertain the appeal and to review