Clapper v. Amnesty Int'l USA

Holding that respondents could not establish injury by relying on a "speculative chain of possibilities"

Summers v. Earth Island Inst.

Holding that supplementation of the district court record to receive affidavits from the organization's members was not permitted "in the circumstances here: after the trial is over, judgment has been entered, and a notice of appeal has been filed"

Warth v. Seldin

Holding that Article III requires plaintiffs "to establish that, in fact, the asserted injury was the consequence of the defendants' actions"

Stump v. Sparkman

Holding that a judge "will be subject to liability only when he has acted in the clear absence of all jurisdiction"

Forrester v. White

Holding that judges are not absolutely immune for administrative acts

Powers v. Ohio

Holding that a white defendant has standing to challenge strikes of black jurors

Lane v. Pena

Holding that any waiver of "sovereign immunity must be unequivocally expressed in statutory text" and "will be strictly construed, in terms of its scope, in favor of the sovereign"

United States v. Mitchell

Holding that "the Tucker Act effects a waiver of sovereign immunity" and observing that "the existence of consent [to be sued] is a prerequisite for jurisdiction"

Pell v. Procunier

Holding that in the First Amendment context “a prison inmate retains those First Amendment rights that are not inconsistent with his status as a prisoner or with the legitimate penological objectives of the corrections system.”

Kowalski v. Tesmer

Holding that attorneys lacked third party standing to assert the rights of future, as yet unascertained clients with whom “they ha[d] no relationship at all”

Rule 12 - Defenses and Objections: When and How Presented; Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings; Consolidating Motions; Waiving Defenses; Pretrial Hearing

Granting the court discretion to exclude matters outside the pleadings presented to the court in defense of a motion to dismiss

Section 552 - Public information; agency rules, opinions, orders, records, and proceedings

Holding that the Court's entering of a “Stipulation and Order” approving the parties' terms of dismissal did not amount to a “court-ordered consent decree” that would render the plaintiff the prevailing party

Section 551 - Definitions

Adopting the definition set out in the APA

Section 351 - Complaints; judge defined

Providing that a complaint may be filed against a circuit, district, bankruptcy, or magistrate judge, but not including Supreme Court justices under the definition of the term "judge" covered by the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act

Section 372 - Retirement for disability; substitute judge on failure to retire

Providing that a judicial officer "aggrieved by an action of the judicial council under paragraph of this subsection may petition the Judicial Conference of the United States for review thereof"

Section 332 - Judicial councils of circuits

Permitting a circuit court council to modify a local rule that is “found inconsistent” with rules promulgated by the Supreme Court

Section 331 - Judicial Conference of the United States

Contemplating that Chief Judges of Courts of Appeals may use judicial resources to participate in Judicial Conference of United States

Section 352 - Review of complaint by chief judge

Authorizing chief judge to dismiss a complaint that is "not in conformity with section 351"

Section 3101 - Records management by agency heads; general duties

Requiring the "head of each [f]ederal agency" to "make and preserve records containing adequate and proper documentation of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and essential transactions of the agency"

Section 2101 - Definitions