35 Cited authorities

Lujan v. Defs. of Wildlife
504 U.S. 555 (1992) Cited 27,751 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"
Harlow v. Fitzgerald
457 U.S. 800 (1982) Cited 31,444 times 11 Legal Analyses
Holding that public officials are entitled to a "qualified immunity" from "liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established . . . rights of which a reasonable person would have known"
Wilkinson v. Dotson
544 U.S. 74 (2005) Cited 6,118 times 2 Legal Analyses
Holding that a prisoner in state custody cannot use a § 1983 action to challenge the fact or duration of his confinement, but must instead seek federal habeas corpus relief
Clapper v. Amnesty Int'l USA
568 U.S. 398 (2013) Cited 3,041 times 169 Legal Analyses
Holding that respondents could not establish injury by relying on a "speculative chain of possibilities"
Summers v. Earth Island Inst.
555 U.S. 488 (2009) Cited 2,994 times 12 Legal Analyses
Holding that supplementation of the district court record to receive affidavits from the organization's members was not permitted "in the circumstances here: after the trial is over, judgment has been entered, and a notice of appeal has been filed"
Hunt v. Cromartie
526 U.S. 541 (1999) Cited 2,870 times 1 Legal Analyses
Holding that the court must resolve all reasonable inferences and doubts in the nonmoving party's favor and construe all evidence in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party
Allen v. Wright
468 U.S. 737 (1984) Cited 4,750 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"
Baker v. Carr
369 U.S. 186 (1962) Cited 5,223 times 11 Legal Analyses
Holding that the plaintiffs had standing to challenge Tennessee's apportionment of state representatives when that apportionment "effect[ed] a gross disproportion of representation to voting population"
Steffel v. Thompson
415 U.S. 452 (1974) Cited 2,435 times 1 Legal Analyses
Holding that Younger abstention is inappropriate when no state-court proceeding "is pending at the time the federal complaint is filed," because in that circumstance "federal intervention does not result in duplicative legal proceedings or disruption of the state criminal justice system"; it cannot "be interpreted as reflecting negatively upon state court's ability to enforce constitutional principles"; and the absence of a pending state-court proceeding deprives "the federal plaintiff [of] a concrete opportunity to vindicate his constitutional rights"
Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena
515 U.S. 200 (1995) Cited 1,056 times 11 Legal Analyses
Holding race-based affirmative action subject to strict judicial scrutiny, and noting that, “to the extent (if any) that Fullilove held federal racial classifications to be subject to a less rigorous standard, it is no longer controlling”
Rule 56 - Summary Judgment
Fed. R. Civ. P. 56 Cited 328,220 times 158 Legal Analyses
Holding a party may move for summary judgment on any part of any claim or defense in the lawsuit
Rule 57 - Declaratory Judgment
Fed. R. Civ. P. 57 Cited 1,551 times 4 Legal Analyses
Preserving right to trial by jury in declaratory judgment action under circumstances and in manner provided in Rules 38 and 39

MOHAMMED ABDULLAH TAHA MATTAN, ET AL. V. BARACK H. OBAMA, ET AL.

35 Cited authorities

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"

Holding that public officials are entitled to a "qualified immunity" from "liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established . . . rights of which a reasonable person would have known"

Holding that a prisoner in state custody cannot use a § 1983 action to challenge the fact or duration of his confinement, but must instead seek federal habeas corpus relief

Holding that respondents could not establish injury by relying on a "speculative chain of possibilities"

Holding that supplementation of the district court record to receive affidavits from the organization's members was not permitted "in the circumstances here: after the trial is over, judgment has been entered, and a notice of appeal has been filed"

Holding that the court must resolve all reasonable inferences and doubts in the nonmoving party's favor and construe all evidence in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party

Holding that the plaintiffs had standing to challenge Tennessee's apportionment of state representatives when that apportionment "effect[ed] a gross disproportion of representation to voting population"

Holding race-based affirmative action subject to strict judicial scrutiny, and noting that, “to the extent (if any) that Fullilove held federal racial classifications to be subject to a less rigorous standard, it is no longer controlling”

Holding a party may move for summary judgment on any part of any claim or defense in the lawsuit

Preserving right to trial by jury in declaratory judgment action under circumstances and in manner provided in Rules 38 and 39