Grayned v. City of Rockford

Holding that a statute's words, even when "marked by flexibility and reasonable breadth, rather than meticulous specificity," are clear based on "what the ordinance as a whole prohibits"

New Orleans v. Dukes

Holding that city's classification abolishing all new food-cart vendors which was intended to preserve the appearance and attractiveness of a neighborhood was rational

McGowan v. Maryland

Holding that appellants fined $5 plus costs had standing to assert an Establishment Clause challenge

United States Trust Co. v. New Jersey

Holding a contractual impairment unreasonable in part because for "over a half century" "the need for mass transportation in the New York metropolitan area was not a new development, and the likelihood that publicly owned commuter railroads would produce substantial deficits was well known"

Schware v. Board of Bar Examiners

Holding that a state cannot exclude a person from the practice of law based on failure to satisfy its standards of qualification "when there is no basis for their finding that he fails to meet these standards"

Girl Scouts v. Girl Scouts

Holding that "[a]s a general rule, interference with the enjoyment or possession of land is considered ‘irreparable’ since land is viewed as a unique commodity"

Roland Machinery Co. v. Dresser Industries

Holding that a damages remedy can be inadequate if plaintiff becomes insolvent or loses its business; plaintiff is unable to finance the lawsuit; or plaintiff incurs damages that are very difficult to calculate; or defendant becomes insolvent or loses its business

Abbott Laboratories v. Mead Johnson Co.

Holding that the defendant's description of its product as "rice-based," which in context was a "term of art used to describe oral electrolyte solutions made from rice grain powder," was literally false because the product contained "rice syrup solids" but not "powdered whole rice"

Kotch v. Pilot Comm'rs

Upholding a licensing scheme that disfavored persons not related to current river boat pilots based on possible efficiency and safety benefits of close ties among pilots

Karlin v. Foust

Holding that the question before the court was whether one enactment impliedly repealed the other, not whether the enactments are void for vagueness

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

Section 10 - Powers Denied to the States

Prohibiting specific acts by the States

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