414 U.S. 538 (1974) Cited 2,144 times 162 Legal Analyses
Holding the commencement of a class action "suspends the applicable statute of limitations as to all asserted members of the class who would have been parties had the suit been permitted to continue as a class action"
Holding that intervenor was constructively notified of a lawsuit because of newspaper articles about the case and the intervenor's interest in related issues
Holding that public has presumptive right under Fed.R.Civ.P. 5(d) and 26(c) to inspect discovery materials filed with the district court and that "[t]he effect of . . . nonfiling was to deny the public the right it would otherwise have had to inspect freely the discovery materials in this case"
Holding that a creditor's standing is not eliminated by the existence of a Chapter 7 trustee, although the trustee may prevent a creditor from pursuing his objection without the court's permission
Holding that "[i]t is settled beyond peradventure . . . that an undifferentiated, generalized interest in the outcome of an ongoing action is too porous a foundation on which to premise intervention as of right"
Holding that the possibility that the litigation could end with an injunction adversely affecting intervenors' interests was adequate to satisfy this aspect of Rule 24
Fed. R. Civ. P. 15 Cited 92,978 times 91 Legal Analyses
Finding that, per N.Y. C.P.L.R. § 1024, New York law provides a more forgiving principle for relation back in the context of naming John Doe defendants described with particularity in the complaint
Fed. R. Civ. P. 23 Cited 35,615 times 1241 Legal Analyses
Holding that, to certify a class, the court must find that "questions of law or fact common to class members predominate over any questions affecting only individual members"