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”

Morrison v. National Australia Bank Ltd.

Holding extraterritorial application of a statute is a merits question, not a question of subject matter jurisdiction

Halliburton Co. v. Erica P. John Fund, Inc.

Holding that defendants may seek to rebut the Basic presumption at the class certification stage through evidence that the misrepresentation had no price impact

Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Shutts

Holding that “the Due Process Clause of course requires that the named plaintiff at all times adequately represent the interests of the absent class members”

Affiliated Ute Citizens v. United States

Holding bank jointly and severally liable with its employees, without explanation

American Tobacco Co. Inc. v. Grinnell

Holding that Texas law does not recognize claims based on a duty to act to prevent risk once prior conduct is found to be dangerous and noting that such claims "are particularly ill-suited for application to what are essentially products liability claims because they impose liability even when the manufacturer provides adequate warnings"

Goodman v. Harris County

Holding an expert may not "go beyond the scope of his expertise in giving his opinion."

Rule 26 - Duty to Disclose; General Provisions Governing Discovery

Adopting Fed.R.Civ.P. 37

Rule 23 - Class Actions

Holding that, to certify a class, the court must find that "questions of law or fact common to class members predominate over any questions affecting only individual members"

Section 16.003 - Two-Year Limitations Period

Providing a two-year limitations period for personal injury actions

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 139.16 - Sales to Individual Accredited Investors