Steel Co. v. Citizens for Better Env't

Holding that a court "act ultra vires" when it assumes "hypothetical jurisdiction" in order to rule on the merits

Davis v. U.S.

Holding "newly announced rules of constitutional criminal procedure 'must apply retroactively to all cases, state or federal, pending on direct review or not yet final, with no exception.'"

Mt. Healthy City Board of Ed. v. Doyle

Holding if a plaintiff can show a prima facie case of First Amendment retaliation, the district court should go on to determine whether the defendant has shown "by a preponderance of the evidence that it would have reached the same decision ... even in the absence of the protected conduct"

Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents

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)

U.S. v. Stevens

Holding law unconstitutional under First Amendment where "impermissible applications ... far outnumber[ed] any permissible ones"

City of Boerne v. Flores

Holding that RFRA is unconstitutional in so far as it permits suits against state actors

Tennessee v. Lane

Holding that in providing prophylactic relief in the context of a "fundamental right of access to [state] courts," Title II of the ADA "constitutes a valid exercise of Congress's § 5 authority to enforce the guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment" and abrogates the states' Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity

Texas v. United States

Holding that a claim that "rests upon contingent future events that may not occur as anticipated, or indeed may not occur at all" is not ripe for adjudication

Johnson v. De Grandy

Holding that because the United States was not a party to the state court action, Rooker - Feldman was not a bar to its federal claims

Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner

Holding that plaintiffs subject to a regulation had standing to challenge it even though the Attorney General had yet to "authorize criminal and seizure actions for violations of the statute"

Section 1973 - Transferred

Holding that no change in voting takes effect until precleared

Section 1973c - Transferred

Setting forth the requirements of § 5

Section 1973p - Transferred

Section 51.59 - Redistricting plans

Providing that “ jurisdiction's failure to adopt the maximum possible number of majority-minority districts may not be the sole basis for determining that a jurisdiction was motivated by a discriminatory purpose”