27 Cited authorities

  1. Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.

    418 U.S. 323 (1974)   Cited 3,865 times   17 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a private defamation plaintiff cannot recover punitive damages without proving actual malice
  2. Consolidated Rail Corporation v. Gottshall

    512 U.S. 532 (1994)   Cited 695 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Holding that common law principles are entitled to great weight in FELA analysis unless expressly rejected in text of statute
  3. Doe v. Chao

    540 U.S. 614 (2004)   Cited 483 times   10 Legal Analyses
    Holding a plaintiff must prove causation in order to obtain damages
  4. Ruckelshaus v. Sierra Club

    463 U.S. 680 (1983)   Cited 784 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that Congress's omission of a prevailing party requirement in 42 U.S.C. § 7607(f) “was meant to expand the class of parties eligible for fee awards from prevailing parties to partially prevailing parties”
  5. United States v. Williams

    514 U.S. 527 (1995)   Cited 331 times
    Holding that a party who, though not assessed a tax, paid a tax under protest to remove a federal tax lien from her property was a “taxpayer” entitled to bring administrative tax refund claim
  6. Merrill v. Waffle House, Inc.

    227 F.R.D. 467 (N.D. Tex. 2005)   Cited 221 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding plaintiff was not required to disclose a dollar amount of damages under Rule 26(C) because plaintiff did not intend to ask the jury for a specific dollar amount of damages at trial
  7. Payton v. Abbott Labs

    386 Mass. 540 (Mass. 1982)   Cited 371 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that market share liability theory could not be used to hold named defendants, DES manufacturers, responsible for marketing a prescription drug that injured plaintiffs in utero
  8. Sanchez v. Puerto Rico Oil Co.

    37 F.3d 712 (1st Cir. 1994)   Cited 224 times
    Holding that a remitted award may be overturned if "the reduced figure remains so extravagant as to shock the appellate conscience."
  9. Williams v. Trader Pub. Co.

    218 F.3d 481 (5th Cir. 2000)   Cited 177 times
    Holding that a Title VII plaintiff's testimony that her employment discharge resulted in sleep loss, smoking, and weight loss was sufficient to support an award of $100,000 in compensatory damages
  10. Rodriguez-Torres v. Caribbean Forms Mfr., Inc.

    399 F.3d 52 (1st Cir. 2005)   Cited 142 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that an employer's good faith efforts to implement an anti-discrimination policy in the workplace is an affirmative defense to an award of punitive damages under § 1981a
  11. Rule 26 - Duty to Disclose; General Provisions Governing Discovery

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 26   Cited 93,834 times   640 Legal Analyses
    Adopting Fed.R.Civ.P. 37
  12. Section 552a - Records maintained on individuals

    5 U.S.C. § 552a   Cited 4,407 times   47 Legal Analyses
    Finding that it is a Department of Justice component that has as its principal function the enforcement of criminal laws includ[ing] correctional authorities
  13. Section 2701 - Unlawful access to stored communications

    18 U.S.C. § 2701   Cited 1,316 times   135 Legal Analyses
    Holding liable any person who "intentionally accesses without authorization a facility through which an electronic communication service is provided ... and thereby obtains, alters, or prevents authorized access to a wire or electronic communication while it is in electronic storage"
  14. Section 214:1B - Right of privacy

    Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 214 § 1B   Cited 194 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Creating statutory right to privacy