371 U.S. 178 (1962) Cited 29,826 times 4 Legal Analyses
Holding that an appeal was improperly dismissed when the record as a whole — including a timely but incomplete notice of appeal and a premature but complete notice — revealed the orders petitioner sought to appeal
Holding that a series of investigative reports documenting systemic deficiencies in a jail put the defendant-supervisor on notice of the risk of the harm that befell the plaintiff
Holding that the district court abused its discretion because "[d]ismissal with prejudice and without leave to amend is not appropriate unless it is clear on de novo review that the complaint could not be saved by amendment"
Holding that plaintiffs Sarbanes-Oxley claim and Title VII retaliation claims involved the same nucleus of operative facts, including the time, cause, and circumstances of plaintiffs termination
Holding that a company that scraped a competitor's website to obtain data for marketing purposes likely committed trespass to chattels, because scraping could—although it did not yet—cause physical harm to the plaintiff's computer servers
Holding that "trespass to chattels is not actionable if it does not involve actual or threatened injury" to property and the defendant's actions did not damage or interfere with the operation of the computer systems at issue
763 F. Supp. 2d 1128 (N.D. Cal. 2010) Cited 180 times 2 Legal Analyses
Finding a class not ascertainable where the definition includes persons who have received refunds, replacements, or who have not suffered any damages at all
Noting that a district court may require a party to establish certain jurisdictional facts, like the location of a business's “nerve center,” by a preponderance of the evidence