62 Cited authorities

  1. Lewis v. Casey

    518 U.S. 343 (1996)   Cited 14,560 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a prisoner must show an actual injury to state a claim for denial of access to courts
  2. Hudson v. Palmer

    468 U.S. 517 (1984)   Cited 12,642 times   13 Legal Analyses
    Holding that prisoners have no reasonable expectation of privacy
  3. Bounds v. Smith

    430 U.S. 817 (1977)   Cited 8,373 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that states must provide prisoners with adequate law libraries or adequate assistance from persons trained in the law
  4. Perry v. Sindermann

    408 U.S. 593 (1972)   Cited 4,529 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding "that the nonrenewal of a nontenured public school teacher's one-year contract may not be predicated on his exercise of First and Fourteenth Amendment rights"
  5. Washington v. Davis

    426 U.S. 229 (1976)   Cited 3,305 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that disparate impact without evidence of discriminatory intent does not violate the Equal Protection Clause
  6. Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins

    304 U.S. 64 (1938)   Cited 20,653 times   18 Legal Analyses
    Holding that state law governs substantive issues and federal law governs procedural issues
  7. Weinberger v. Salfi

    422 U.S. 749 (1975)   Cited 2,783 times
    Holding existence of a final decision made after a hearing is central to the grant of subject matter jurisdiction under § 405(g)
  8. Van Dusen v. Barrack

    376 U.S. 612 (1964)   Cited 4,682 times   7 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a "change of venue under § 1404 generally should be, with respect to state law, but a change of courtrooms"
  9. Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena

    515 U.S. 200 (1995)   Cited 1,074 times   11 Legal Analyses
    Holding race-based affirmative action subject to strict judicial scrutiny, and noting that, “to the extent (if any) that Fullilove held federal racial classifications to be subject to a less rigorous standard, it is no longer controlling”
  10. Lemon v. Kurtzman

    403 U.S. 602 (1971)   Cited 2,347 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"
  11. Rule 11 - Signing Pleadings, Motions, and Other Papers; Representations to the Court; Sanctions

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 11   Cited 36,756 times   147 Legal Analyses
    Holding an "unrepresented party" to the same standard as an attorney
  12. Section 1404 - Change of venue

    28 U.S.C. § 1404   Cited 28,925 times   190 Legal Analyses
    Granting Class Plaintiffs' motion to transfer action in order to "facilitate a unified settlement approval process together with the class action cases in" In re Amex ASR
  13. Section 1746 - Unsworn declarations under penalty of perjury

    28 U.S.C. § 1746   Cited 10,282 times   17 Legal Analyses
    Making affidavits and declarations effectively synonymous
  14. Section 4 - Misprision of felony

    18 U.S.C. § 4   Cited 1,389 times   10 Legal Analyses
    Subjecting to criminal penalties anyone with "knowledge ... of a felony" and who "conceals" that felony from authorities
  15. Section 632 - Effect of failure of selection for promotion: captains and majors of the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force and lieutenants and lieutenant commanders of the Navy

    10 U.S.C. § 632   Cited 36 times

    (a) Except an officer of the Navy and Marine Corps who is an officer designated for limited duty (to whom section 8146(e) or 8372 of this title applies) and except as provided under section 637(a) of this title, each officer of the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Space Force on the active-duty list who holds the grade of captain or major, and each officer of the Navy on the active-duty list who holds the grade of lieutenant or lieutenant commander, who has failed of selection for promotion to the

  16. Section 612 - Composition of selection boards

    10 U.S.C. § 612   Cited 14 times

    (a) (1) Members of selection boards shall be appointed by the Secretary of the military department concerned in accordance with this section. A selection board shall consist of five or more officers of the same armed force as the officers under consideration by the board. Each member of a selection board (except as provided in paragraphs (2), (3), and (4)) shall be an officer on the active-duty list. Each member of a selection board must be serving in a grade higher than the grade of the officers