574 U.S. 10 (2014) Cited 3,014 times 4 Legal Analyses
Holding that failure explicitly to invoke § 1983 does not render a complaint deficient if it otherwise pleads facts sufficient to establish all elements of the claim and stating that, "to ward off further insistence on a punctiliously stated 'theory of the pleadings,' " the plaintiffs on remand should be allowed to add a "citation to § 1983" to their complaint
572 U.S. 118 (2014) Cited 2,860 times 70 Legal Analyses
Holding that a plaintiff seeking to bring suit under a federal statute must show not only that he has standing under Article III, but also that his "complaint fall within the zone of interests protected by the law" invoked
565 U.S. 400 (2012) Cited 1,880 times 109 Legal Analyses
Holding that installation of a tracking device was "a physical intrusion would have been considered a ‘search’ within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment when it was adopted"
Holding that “[t]o the extent Swartz seeks a declaration of defendants' liability for damages sought for his other causes of action,” claim must be dismissed as “merely duplicative”
434 U.S. 575 (1978) Cited 1,123 times 4 Legal Analyses
Holding that the presumption of legislative ratification attaches where there is “an administrative or judicial interpretation of a statute,” and Congress “re-enacts statute without change”
Fed. R. Civ. P. 15 Cited 91,153 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
18 U.S.C. § 2510 Cited 4,262 times 79 Legal Analyses
Defining "[i]nvestigative or law enforcement officer" as an officer "empowered by law to conduct investigations of or to make arrests for [certain] offenses . . . and any attorney authorized by law to prosecute or participate in the prosecution of such offenses"