23 Cited authorities

  1. Rhines v. Warden

    544 U.S. 269 (2005)   Cited 10,516 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the district court should allow a petitioner to "delete the unexhausted claims and to proceed with the exhausted claims if dismissal of the entire petition would unreasonably impair the petitioner's right to obtain federal relief"
  2. Steel Co. v. Citizens for Better Env't

    523 U.S. 83 (1998)   Cited 10,803 times   15 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a court "act ultra vires" when it assumes "hypothetical jurisdiction" in order to rule on the merits
  3. Ruhrgas AG v. Marathon Oil Co.

    526 U.S. 574 (1999)   Cited 4,199 times   12 Legal Analyses
    Holding that, because "[t]hey keep the federal courts within the bounds the Constitution and Congress have prescribed," questions concerning subject matter jurisdiction "must be policed by the courts on their own initiative even at the highest level"
  4. United States v. Mine Workers

    330 U.S. 258 (1947)   Cited 2,638 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a party may be punished for disobeying a court order even if the court was ultimately determined to lack jurisdiction to issue the order
  5. Telecommunications Research Action v. F.C.C

    750 F.2d 70 (D.C. Cir. 1984)   Cited 943 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a district court did not have jurisdiction to review a rule or issue a writ of mandamus because of a special review statute that assigned judicial review to the courts of appeals
  6. LaShawn A. v. Barry

    87 F.3d 1389 (D.C. Cir. 1996)   Cited 340 times
    Concluding that a common nucleus existed because the state and federal claims related to the city's allegedly inept administration of its foster care system
  7. Critical Mass Energy Project v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

    975 F.2d 871 (D.C. Cir. 1992)   Cited 356 times   7 Legal Analyses
    Holding that information voluntarily given to the government must be "of a kind that would customarily not be released to the public by the person from whom it was obtained" to be confidential
  8. Associated Builders Contractors v. City of Seward

    507 U.S. 984 (1993)   Cited 76 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Striking down Pennsylvania's rule requiring prosecutors to obtain prior judicial approval before issuing a subpoena to an attorney to testify before the grand jury concerning a past or present client
  9. M.C. L.M. Railway Co. v. Swan

    111 U.S. 379 (1884)   Cited 1,311 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding certain plaintiffs did not have standing to attack ordinance governing sexually oriented businesses where the record did not reveal that any one of these plaintiffs was subject to the ordinance, even though the city attorney conceded at oral argument before the Supreme Court that "one or two" of them had had their licenses denied under the ordinance
  10. Textile Mills Corp. v. Comm'r

    314 U.S. 326 (1941)   Cited 114 times
    In Textile Mills Corp. v. Commissioner, 314 U.S. 326, 332 (1941), the Court noted the range of relatively minor responsibilities, other than the hearing of appeals, placed by statute in the courts of appeals.
  11. Section 2241 - Power to grant writ

    28 U.S.C. § 2241   Cited 80,799 times   55 Legal Analyses
    Granting courts authority to determine whether detention is "in violation of the . . . laws . . . of the United States"
  12. Section 1631 - Transfer to cure want of jurisdiction

    28 U.S.C. § 1631   Cited 7,685 times   16 Legal Analyses
    Granting courts authority to transfer action to court with proper jurisdiction
  13. Section 46 - Assignment of judges; panels; hearings; quorum

    28 U.S.C. § 46   Cited 2,055 times   13 Legal Analyses
    Holding that prior version of § 46 did not permit senior judges ever to serve on an en banc panel