Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes

Holding in Rule 23 context that “[w]ithout some glue holding the alleged reasons for all those decisions together, it will be impossible to say that examination of all the class members' claims for relief will produce a common answer”

Amchem Prods., Inc. v. Windsor

Holding that courts are "bound to enforce" Rule 23's certification requirements, even where it means decertifying a class after they had reached a settlement agreement and submitted it to the court for approval

Comcast Corp. v. Behrend

Holding that at the class certification stage, "any model supporting a plaintiff's damages case must be consistent with its liability case"

Amgen Inc. v. Conn. Ret. Plans & Tr. Funds

Holding that certain merits questions “should not be resolved in deciding whether to certify a proposed class,” but are “properly addressed at trial or in a ruling on a summary-judgment motion”

Test Masters Educ. Serv., Inc. v. Singh

Holding that Singh was precluded from re-litigating issue of secondary meaning

In re Gen. Motors Corp. Pick-Up Truck Fuel Tank

Holding that nothing in Rule 23 "can be read to authorize separate, liberalized criteria for settlement classes"

Castano v. the Am. Tobacco Co.

Holding that the district court had not engaged in a rigorous analysis of predominance—that is, whether a Rule 23(b) class type was appropriate

Tooke v. City of Mexia

Holding that lost profits from additional work “are consequential damages excluded from recovery under the statute”

Baffa v. Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Secs. Corp.

Holding that "class certification is inappropriate where a putative class representative is subject to unique defenses which threaten to become the focus of the litigation"

Allison v. Citgo Petroleum Corp.

Holding that certification under Rule 23(b) was not appropriate because "plaintiffs' claims for compensatory and punitive damages must therefore focus almost entirely on facts and issues specific to individuals rather than the class as a whole"

Rule 5 - Serving and Filing Pleadings and Other Papers

Allowing service by filing papers with the court's electronic-filing system

Section 552 - Public information; agency rules, opinions, orders, records, and proceedings

Holding that the Court's entering of a “Stipulation and Order” approving the parties' terms of dismissal did not amount to a “court-ordered consent decree” that would render the plaintiff the prevailing party

Section 2072 - Rules of procedure and evidence; power to prescribe

Granting the Supreme Court, not the parties, authority to "prescribe general rules of practice and procedure" for federal district court cases

Section 33.003 - Determination of Percentage of Responsibility

Determining percentage of responsibility

Section 33.011 - Definitions

Defining a "responsible third party" as "any person who is alleged to have caused or contributed to causing in any way the harm for which recovery of damages is sought. . . ."

Section 33.002 - Applicability

Applying only to a "cause of action based on tort in which a defendant, settling person, or responsible third party is found responsible for a percentage of the harm for which relief is sought" or an action brought under the DTPA "in which a defendant, settling person, or responsible third party is found responsible for a percentage of the harm for which relief is sought"

Section 581-33 - [Repealed]

Providing "[n]o person may sue" under the TSA "more than five years after the sale" of the securities at issue

Section 78dd-1 - Prohibited foreign trade practices by issuers

Making it unlawful for any securities issuer or its officer to bribe a foreign official

Section 33.013 - Amount of Liability

Providing that when percentage of causation attributable to defendant is greater than 50%, defendant is jointly and severally liable for all compensatory damages

Section 139.7 - Sale of Securities to Nonresidents