Clapper v. Amnesty Int'l USA

Holding no standing existed where alleged injury was "based on hypothetical future harm that is not certainly impending."

Whitmore v. Arkansas

Holding that a third party does not have "standing to challenge the validity of a death sentence imposed on a capital defendant who has elected to forgo his right of appeal"

Parham v. J. R

Holding that continuing need for commitment must be reviewed periodically

Aetna Life Ins. Co. v. Haworth

Holding that a request for a declaratory judgment regarding an insured's disability was justiciable

Watterson v. Page

Holding that an allegation that a psychologist and a state social worker conspired to present false testimony and withhold material evidence from the court failed because all witnesses at judicial proceedings have an absolute immunity from damages liability based on their testimony

Shaw v. Digital Equipment Corp.

Holding that the bespeaks caution doctrine does not apply to representations of "present facts" that were false when made

Kottmyer v. Maas

Holding that the court "need not accept as true ... unwarranted factual inferences"

Clorox Co. Puerto Rico v. Proctor Gamble

Holding that the court may consider a document "integral to or explicitly relied upon in the complaint, even though not attached to the complaint" (quoting Shaw v. Digit. Equip. Corp., 82 F.3d 1194, 1220 (1st Cir. 1996) )

Hatch v. Dept. for Children, Youth Families

Holding that, when a nine-year-old boy asserted that he had been abused, (b) two school officials took the boy's claim seriously, and (c) a neutral physician reported that the boy's injuries were consistent with the claim of abuse, the defendant state official was entitled to qualified immunity because the official "had a reasonable basis both for suspecting child abuse and for believing [a child] to be in danger," and noting that "[t]he fact that this suspicion proved, in the long run, to be unfounded does not strip [the defendant] of his entitlement to qualified immunity"

Am. Civil Liberties Union of Mass. v. U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

Finding that a party's "appellate brief ha[d] waived the issue" of the applicability of the exception to mootness for controversies that are capable of repetition, yet evading review, by "addressing the exception only once in a footnote"

Section 1983 - Civil action for deprivation of rights

Holding liable any state actor who "subjects, or causes [a person] to be subjected" to a constitutional violation

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 2201 - Creation of remedy

Granting district courts the authority to create a remedy with the force of a final judgment

Section 28 to 43 - Repealed