17 Cited authorities

  1. Nat'l R.R. Passenger Corp. v. Morgan

    536 U.S. 101 (2002)   Cited 10,271 times   31 Legal Analyses
    Holding limitations period for hostile-work-environment claim runs from the last act composing the claim
  2. Hudson v. McMillian

    503 U.S. 1 (1992)   Cited 17,123 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that, to determine whether the force used by a prison official amounts to a constitutional violation, "the core judicial inquiry is . . . whether force was applied in a good-faith effort to maintain or restore discipline, or maliciously and sadistically to cause harm"
  3. Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

    550 U.S. 618 (2007)   Cited 520 times   32 Legal Analyses
    Holding that statute of limitations barred suit for wage discrimination despite difficulty in discovering such discrimination
  4. Johnson v. Glick

    481 F.2d 1028 (2d Cir. 1973)   Cited 2,488 times
    Holding that unprovoked attack on pretrial detainee violated substantive due process
  5. Urrutia v. Harrisburg County Police Dept

    91 F.3d 451 (3d Cir. 1996)   Cited 859 times
    Holding that where plaintiff sought relief from custody, his complaint sounded in habeas corpus, not civil rights
  6. O'Connor v. City of Newark

    440 F.3d 125 (3d Cir. 2006)   Cited 616 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding time-barred claims “cannot be resurrected by being aggregated and labeled continuing violations”
  7. Brenner v. L. 514, Un. Broth. of Carpenters

    927 F.2d 1283 (3d Cir. 1991)   Cited 1,017 times
    Holding “[i]t is well established that failure to raise an issue in the district court constitutes a waiver of the argument” unless certain “extraordinary circumstances” exist
  8. Cowell v. Palmer Township

    263 F.3d 286 (3d Cir. 2001)   Cited 638 times
    Holding that plaintiffs' takings claim was not ripe because they did not file an inverse-condemnation petition
  9. W. v. Phila. Elec. Co.

    45 F.3d 744 (3d Cir. 1995)   Cited 678 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the exception to the timely filing requirement of a discrimination claim is the continuing violation theory, making it appropriate to measure the running time of the required time period from the last occurrence of the discrimination and not from the first occurrence, and that in congruence with that theory, a hostile work environment claim may rely upon evidence of events occurring long before the relevant filing periods to establish such a claim
  10. Rush v. Scott Specialty Gases, Inc.

    113 F.3d 476 (3d Cir. 1997)   Cited 234 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that plaintiff's failure to promote claim and train claims are "discrete instances of alleged discrimination that are not susceptible to a continuing violation analysis."
  11. Section 1983 - Civil action for deprivation of rights

    42 U.S.C. § 1983   Cited 486,959 times   689 Legal Analyses
    Holding liable any state actor who "subjects, or causes [a person] to be subjected" to a constitutional violation