54 Cited authorities

  1. Reed v. Town of Gilbert

    576 U.S. 155 (2015)   Cited 1,263 times   26 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a town's content-based sign regulation failed strict scrutiny because “[t]he Town cannot claim that placing strict limits on temporary directional signs is necessary to beautify the Town while at the same time allowing unlimited numbers of other types of signs that create the same problem”
  2. Agostini v. Felton

    521 U.S. 203 (1997)   Cited 1,621 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "lower courts should follow the case which directly controls, leaving to this Court the prerogative of overruling its own decisions"
  3. Renton v. Playtime Theatres, Inc.

    475 U.S. 41 (1986)   Cited 1,424 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that local governments may enact zoning ordinances against adult movie theaters to curb negative "secondary effects"
  4. McCullen v. Coakley

    573 U.S. 464 (2014)   Cited 524 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding unconstitutional buffer zone restriction requiring plaintiffs to stand a substantial distance away from an abortion provider's driveway
  5. Lemon v. Kurtzman

    403 U.S. 602 (1971)   Cited 2,333 times   23 Legal Analyses
    Holding school-aid statute authorizing government inspection of parochial school records created an impermissible "intimate and continuing relationship between church and state" because it required the state "to determine which expenditures are religious and which are secular"
  6. Young v. American Mini Theatres

    427 U.S. 50 (1976)   Cited 1,076 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that regulating the location of adult films does not violate the First Amendment, and citing as support the proposition that "[r]easonable regulations of the time, place, and manner of protected speech, where those regulations are necessary to further significant governmental interests, are permitted by the First Amendment"
  7. City of Los Angeles v. Alameda Books, Inc.

    535 U.S. 425 (2002)   Cited 409 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "'[t]he First Amendment does not require a city, before enacting . . . an [adult entertainment secondary effects] ordinance to conduct new studies or produce evidence independent of that already generated by other cities, so long as whatever evidence the city relies upon is reasonably believed to be relevant to the problem that the city addresses.'"
  8. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission

    520 U.S. 180 (1997)   Cited 326 times
    Holding that "Congress has drawn reasonable inferences based on substantial evidence," when it had before it evidence including some memory surveys
  9. 300 Gramatan v. Human Rights

    45 N.Y.2d 176 (N.Y. 1978)   Cited 2,302 times
    In 300 Gramatan Ave. Assoc. v State Div. of Human Rights (45 NY2d 176), we stated that "substantial evidence consists of proof within the whole record of such quality and quantity as to generate conviction in and persuade a fair and detached fact finder that, from that proof as a premise, a conclusion or ultimate fact may be extracted reasonably — probatively and logically" (id. at 181).
  10. People c. v. Evans

    94 N.Y.2d 499 (N.Y. 2000)   Cited 491 times
    Finding law of the case addresses judicial determinations made in course of single litigation
  11. Section 5601 - Appeals to the court of appeals as of right

    N.Y. CPLR 5601   Cited 2,356 times

    (a) Dissent. An appeal may be taken to the court of appeals as of right in an action originating in the supreme court, a county court, a surrogate's court, the family court, the court of claims or an administrative agency, from an order of the appellate division which finally determines the action, where there is a dissent by at least two justices on a question of law in favor of the party taking such appeal. (b) Constitutional grounds. An appeal may be taken to the court of appeals as of right:

  12. Section 14-202.10 - Definitions

    N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-202.10   Cited 8 times

    As used in this Article: (1) "Adult bookstore" means a bookstore: a. Which receives a majority of its gross income during any calendar month from the sale or rental of publications (including books, magazines, other periodicals, videotapes, compact discs, other photographic, electronic, magnetic, digital, or other imaging medium) which are distinguished or characterized by their emphasis on matter depicting, describing, or relating to specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas, as