Greebel v. FTP Software, Inc.

Holding plaintiffs' failure to provide information regarding sales made by insiders at times outside the class period permitted no possibility of comparison

United States v. AVX Corp.

Holding that intervenor who opposed consent decree could not appeal the district court's order approving the decree without satisfying Article III standing requirements

Young v. Lepone

Holding that amended pleading naming new plaintiffs in a non-class action could not relate back under Rule 15(c)

Payton v. Abbott Labs

Holding that market share liability theory could not be used to hold named defendants, DES manufacturers, responsible for marketing a prescription drug that injured plaintiffs in utero

Hendrickson v. Sears

Holding that cause of action for negligent certification of title accrues upon discovery

Lee v. City of Beaumont

Holding that a district court's "discretionary remand of pendant state claims is a reviewable order"

FMR Corp. v. Boston Edison Co.

Affirming summary judgment in favor of defendant on negligence and breach of express and implied warranty claims where plaintiff's damages were solely economic

Braxton v. U.S.

Holding that a failure to ensure that a dilatory private process server provided timely service did not constitute delay for good cause

Friedman v. Jablonski

In Friedman v. Jablonski, 371 Mass. 482, 485 n. 3, 358 N.E.2d 994, 997 n. 3 (1976), the court, rather than apply the fraudulent concealment rule to a cause of action that was "inherently unknowable," held that such a cause is subject to a "discovery rule" under which it does not accrue until the plaintiff learns or should have learned of the injury.

Massachusetts Lab. Health Wel. v. Philip Morris

Holding plaintiff could not recover under Chapter 93A for claim based on fraud where plaintiff failed to prove reliance on false statements was reasonable

Rule 12 - Defenses and Objections: When and How Presented; Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings; Consolidating Motions; Waiving Defenses; Pretrial Hearing

Granting the court discretion to exclude matters outside the pleadings presented to the court in defense of a motion to dismiss

Rule 4 - Summons

Holding that if defendant is not served within 90 days after the complaint is filed, the court—on a motion, or on its own following notice to the plaintiff—must dismiss the action without prejudice against that defendant or order that service be made by a certain time

Rule 11 - Signing Pleadings, Motions, and Other Papers; Representations to the Court; Sanctions

Holding an "unrepresented party" to the same standard as an attorney

Rule 81 - Applicability of the Rules in General; Removed Actions

Recognizing that the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure "apply to proceedings for habeas corpus . . . to the extent that the practice in those proceedings: is not specified in a federal statute, the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases, or the Rules Governing Section 2255 Cases; and (B) has previously conformed to the practice in civil actions."

Section 1658 - Time limitations on the commencement of civil actions arising under Acts of Congress

Holding that the state-law tort period controls § 1983 actions

Rule 4 - Process