§Why CasetextPricing

In Re: Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001

MEMORANDUM OF LAW in Support re:

36 Cited authorities

  1. Asahi Metal Indus. Co. Ltd. v. Superior Court

    480 U.S. 102 (1987)   Cited 4,947 times   40 Legal Analyses
    Holding that, in suit by Taiwanese manufacturer for indemnification against Japanese manufacturer, the assertion by California court of personal jurisdiction over Japanese manufacturer was unreasonable

  2. Calder v. Jones

    465 U.S. 783 (1984)   Cited 4,732 times   23 Legal Analyses
    Holding a California court had personal jurisdiction over individual defendants when the defendants had not visited the state in connection with an allegedly defamatory article and "[we]re not responsible for the circulation of the article in California"

  3. Holmes v. Securities Investor Protection Corp.

    503 U.S. 258 (1992)   Cited 1,689 times   8 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) could not recover under RICO for stock-manipulation scheme that bankrupted broker-dealers, triggering a statutory requirement that SIPC meet the broker-dealers' obligations to their customers

  4. Hemi Group, LLC v. City of New York

    559 U.S. 1 (2010)   Cited 776 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the defendant retailer's failure to make state-law-required disclosures that would make it easier for the City to recover delinquent taxes did not proximately cause the City's injury, which more directly came from the delinquent taxpayers themselves

  5. Anza v. Ideal Steel Supply Corp.

    547 U.S. 451 (2006)   Cited 868 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a business could not recover against its competitor for a scheme to defraud the New York State tax authority that allowed the defendant to undercut the plaintiff's prices

  6. Samantar v. Yousuf et al.

    560 U.S. 305 (2010)   Cited 385 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the common law, rather than the FSIA, governs the immunity of foreign officials

  7. Canyon v. Syngenta

    519 F.3d 969 (9th Cir. 2008)   Cited 248 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that county could not sue employer who hired undocumented immigrants for alleged increase in law enforcement expenditures because "the asserted causal chain ... is quite attenuated," "would be difficult to ascertain because there are numerous alternative causes that might be the actual source or sources of the [plaintiff's] alleged harm," and the "injury would be speculative in the extreme"

  8. King v. Crossland Savings Bank

    111 F.3d 251 (2d Cir. 1997)   Cited 225 times
    Holding that defendant must have "intended or instigated the confinement of the plaintiff"

  9. In re Terrorist

    538 F.3d 71 (2d Cir. 2008)   Cited 123 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that even if Saudi princes could and did foresee that Muslim charities would use their donations to finance the September 11 attacks, providing indirect funding to an organization that was openly hostile to the United States did not constitute the type of intentional conduct necessary to constitute purposeful direction of activities at the forum

  10. In re Ambac Financial Group, Inc. Securities Litig.

    693 F. Supp. 2d 241 (S.D.N.Y. 2010)   Cited 102 times
    Holding alleged GAAP violations actionable where company had not restated financials but plaintiffs had pleaded facts giving rise to strong inference of scienter

  11. Rule 4 - Summons

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 4   Cited 72,180 times   128 Legal Analyses
    Holding that if defendant is not served within 90 days after the complaint is filed, the court—on a motion, or on its own following notice to the plaintiff—must dismiss the action without prejudice against that defendant or order that service be made by a certain time

  12. Section 1292 - Interlocutory decisions

    28 U.S.C. § 1292   Cited 22,648 times   198 Legal Analyses
    Granting appellate jurisdiction over certain types of interlocutory orders

  13. Section 1964 - Civil remedies

    18 U.S.C. § 1964   Cited 6,190 times   43 Legal Analyses
    Granting civil remedies for RICO violation

  14. Section 15 - Suits by persons injured

    15 U.S.C. § 15   Cited 5,740 times   35 Legal Analyses
    Granting private right of action to anyone who has been injured "by reason of anything forbidden in the antitrust laws ..."

  15. Section 2333 - Civil remedies

    18 U.S.C. § 2333   Cited 489 times   22 Legal Analyses
    Granting any ATA claimant the right to sue "in any appropriate district court of the United States"