15 Cited authorities

  1. Hudson v. Palmer

    468 U.S. 517 (1984)   Cited 12,383 times   13 Legal Analyses
    Holding that prisoners have no reasonable expectation of privacy
  2. Parratt v. Taylor

    451 U.S. 527 (1981)   Cited 10,695 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a negligent prison official, in mishandling and losing a prisoner's mail, had effectuated a due process violation, but that the state's availability of a postdeprivation tort remedy cured the violation
  3. College Savings Bank v. Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board

    527 U.S. 666 (1999)   Cited 1,662 times   13 Legal Analyses
    Holding there is no fundamental property right in "the activity of doing business, or the activity of making a profit"
  4. Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer

    427 U.S. 445 (1976)   Cited 1,638 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that state sovereign immunity is necessarily limited by the enforcement provision of the Fourteenth Amendment
  5. West Virginia v. United States

    479 U.S. 305 (1987)   Cited 378 times
    Affirming remand by the Fourth Circuit for an award of such prejudgment interest as the district court deemed reasonable
  6. Grosjean v. American Press Co.

    297 U.S. 233 (1936)   Cited 678 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding unconstitutional a tax singling out newspapers with weekly circulations above 20,000
  7. A123 Systems, Inc. v. Hydro-Quebec

    626 F.3d 1213 (Fed. Cir. 2010)   Cited 42 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that absent patentee was an indispensable party when the named party had “overlapping” but not “identical” interests
  8. Becher v. Contoure Laboratories

    279 U.S. 388 (1929)   Cited 137 times
    In Becher v. Contoure Laboratories, Inc., 279 U.S. 388 (1929) (cited in Marrese, 470 U.S., at 381), we held that state court findings of fact were issue preclusive in federal patent suits.
  9. Biomedical v. California

    505 F.3d 1328 (Fed. Cir. 2007)   Cited 36 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a state did not waive sovereign immunity when it intervened in a past, related action
  10. Edwards v. Gramling Engineering Corp.

    322 Md. 535 (Md. 1991)   Cited 29 times
    Applying Maryland law and stating, "[e]quity creates [a constructive trust] where a person holding title to a property is subject to an equitable duty to convey it to another person on the ground that he would be unjustly enriched if he were permitted to retain it"
  11. Section 1338 - Patents, plant variety protection, copyrights, mask works, designs, trademarks, and unfair competition

    28 U.S.C. § 1338   Cited 5,398 times   71 Legal Analyses
    Granting exclusive jurisdiction to the district courts "of any civil action arising under any Act of Congress relating to patents, . . . copyrights and trademarks"