Greenholtz v. Nebraska Penal Inmates

Holding the Constitution does not create a protected liberty interest in a prisoner's release prior to the expiration of a valid sentence

Pennsylvania Dept. of Corrections v. Yeskey

Holding that text of Title II's prohibition of discrimination by "public entities" against disabled individuals "unmistakably includes State prisons and prisoners within its coverage"

Ingraham v. Wright

Holding that reasonable "corporal punishment serves important educational interests" and is therefore permissible in public schools

Youngberg v. Romeo

Holding that severely retarded man's liberty interests in safety, freedom from bodily restraint and reasonable training survive involuntary commitment

Agostini v. Felton

Holding that "lower courts should follow the case which directly controls, leaving to this Court the prerogative of overruling its own decisions"

Hutto v. Finney

Holding that, in the context of institutional reform litigation, the district court's "exercise of discretion ... is entitled to special deference because of the trial judge's years of experience with the problem at hand"

Horne v. Flores

Holding injunction mandating sweeping changes to Texas's foster care system overly broad

Olmstead v. L. C

Holding that a state engages in disability discrimination if it institutionalizes individuals with disabilities when community-based placement could be reasonably accommodated, accounting for the resources available to the state and the needs of others with disabilities.

Rufo v. Inmates of Suffolk County Jail

Holding that a consent decree may properly be modified in the face of "changed factual conditions"

Frew ex rel. Frew v. Hawkins

Holding that the equitable standards of Rule 60, not the rule of Ex parte Young, 209 U.S. 123, 28 S.Ct. 441, 52 L.Ed. 714, govern the modification of a consent decree

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

Rule 60 - Relief from a Judgment or Order

Granting relief from the operation of a judgment

Section 12101 - Findings and purpose

Finding a pattern of " unnecessary discrimination and prejudice" that "costs the United States billions of dollars in unnecessary expenses resulting from dependency and nonproductivity"

Section 12131 - Definitions

Defining discrimination to include the failure to provide "reasonable accommodations"

Rule 70 - Enforcing a Judgment for a Specific Act

Recognizing that federal court may enforce judgment for real property by "enter[ing] a judgment divesting any party's title and vesting [real or personal property] in others."

Section 12134 - Regulations

Providing that regulations promulgated under the ADA shall be consistent with the Rehabilitation Act

Section 7-1303.04 - Petition for commitment of individual 14 years of age or older filed by parent or guardian or by the District

Section 7-1304.11 - Periodic review of commitment order

Section 35.130 - General prohibitions against discrimination

Finding discrimination in violation of ADA when disabled persons have unequal opportunity to participate in state services or unequal ability to realize the benefit of those services