67 Cited authorities

  1. Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.

    477 U.S. 242 (1986)   Cited 236,174 times   38 Legal Analyses
    Holding that summary judgment is not appropriate if "the dispute about a material fact is ‘genuine,’ that is, if the evidence is such that a reasonable jury could return a verdict for the nonmoving party"
  2. United States v. Booker

    543 U.S. 220 (2005)   Cited 25,386 times   28 Legal Analyses
    Holding the Sentencing Guidelines are advisory
  3. Lujan v. Defs. of Wildlife

    504 U.S. 555 (1992)   Cited 27,829 times   138 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the elements of standing "must be supported in the same way as any other matter on which the plaintiff bears the burden of proof"
  4. Daimlerchrysler Corp. v. Cuno

    547 U.S. 332 (2006)   Cited 2,647 times   7 Legal Analyses
    Holding that an injury a plaintiff "suffers in some indefinite way in common with people generally" is not a cognizable injury-in-fact
  5. United States v. Salerno

    481 U.S. 739 (1987)   Cited 5,397 times   14 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "extensive safeguards" are necessary "to repel a facial challenge"
  6. Allen v. Wright

    468 U.S. 737 (1984)   Cited 4,756 times   9 Legal Analyses
    Holding that, even when plaintiffs allege "one of the most serious injuries recognized in our legal system," it's not justiciable where "the chain of causation between the challenged Government conduct and the asserted injury are far too weak for the chain as a whole to sustain respondents' standing"
  7. Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents

    528 U.S. 62 (2000)   Cited 2,234 times   9 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 29 U.S.C. § 626(b), effectively abrogated states’ sovereign immunity by incorporating the Fair Labor Standards Act's cause of action against a "public agency," which the FLSA statutorily defined to include "any agency of ... a State, or a political subdivision of a State," 29 U.S.C. §§ 203(x), 216(b)
  8. Valley Forge College v. Americans United

    454 U.S. 464 (1982)   Cited 4,970 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "the psychological consequence presumably produced by observation of conduct with which one disagrees ... is not an injury sufficient to confer standing under Art. III, even though the disagreement is phrased in constitutional terms"
  9. United States v. Georgia

    546 U.S. 151 (2006)   Cited 1,451 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act validly abrogated state sovereign immunity "insofar as [it] create[d] a private cause of action for damages against the States for conduct that actually violates the Fourteenth Amendment"
  10. Wash. State Grange v. Wa. State Repub. Party

    552 U.S. 442 (2008)   Cited 1,249 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that courts should neither "anticipate a question of constitutional law in advance of the necessity of deciding it" nor "formulate a rule of constitutional law broader than is required by the precise facts to which it is to be applied"
  11. Rule 56 - Summary Judgment

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 56   Cited 328,681 times   158 Legal Analyses
    Holding a party may move for summary judgment on any part of any claim or defense in the lawsuit
  12. Section 1973 - Transferred

    42 U.S.C. § 1973   Cited 1,593 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Holding that no change in voting takes effect until precleared
  13. Section 1973c - Transferred

    42 U.S.C. § 1973c   Cited 894 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Setting forth the requirements of § 5
  14. Section 1973b - Transferred

    42 U.S.C. § 1973b   Cited 256 times
    Specifying jurisdictions where § 5 applies
  15. Section 1973a - Transferred

    42 U.S.C. § 1973a   Cited 80 times
    Providing that the court need not authorize the appointment of observers if any incidents of denial or abridgement were few in number, corrected promptly and effectively, lack a continuing effect, and lack a reasonable probability of recurrence
  16. Section 1973p - Transferred

    42 U.S.C. § 1973p   Cited 2 times

    42 U.S.C. § 1973p EDITORIAL NOTES CODIFICATIONSection 1973p was editorially reclassified as section 10313 of Title 52, Voting and Elections.

  17. Section 51.54 - Discriminatory purpose and effect

    28 C.F.R. § 51.54   Cited 18 times
    Providing that the last "legally enforceable" plan is the benchmark plan for purposes of measuring retrogression
  18. Section 51.23 - Party and jurisdiction responsible for making submissions

    28 C.F.R. § 51.23   Cited 10 times
    Noting that a “State is better able to explain to the Attorney General the purpose and effect of voting changes it enacts than are the individual covered jurisdictions”
  19. Section 51.45 - Request for reconsideration

    28 C.F.R. § 51.45   Cited 5 times

    (a) The submitting authority may at any time request the Attorney General to reconsider an objection. (b) Requests may be in letter or any other written form and should contain relevant information or legal argument. (c) Notice of the request will be given to any party who commented on the submission or requested notice of the Attorney General's action thereon and to interested parties registered under §51.32. In appropriate cases the Attorney General may request the submitting authority to give