529 U.S. 803 (2000) Cited 829 times 7 Legal Analyses
Holding that a statute was content based because it “applies only to channels primarily dedicated to sexually explicit adult programming or other programming that is indecent”
471 U.S. 626 (1985) Cited 608 times 54 Legal Analyses
Holding that attorney advertisement promising "if there is no recovery, no legal fees are owed by our clients" was potentially misleading because "members of the public are often unaware of the technical meanings of such terms as 'fees' and 'costs' — terms that, in ordinary usage, might well be virtually interchangeable"
435 U.S. 679 (1978) Cited 741 times 9 Legal Analyses
Holding agreement among engineers to refuse to discuss prices with potential customers until after the initial selection of an engineer was per se illegal
Holding that the verb "include" is non-limiting where the "most obvious way" to limit a definition would be to write it the way Congress wrote other limited definitions nearby
449 F. Supp. 2d 1 (D.D.C. 2006) Cited 82 times 1 Legal Analyses
Finding that “[e]ach cigarette manufacturing company gains a small amount (less than 10%) of smokers through ‘switching’ or changing brands. Only about 9% of adult smokers switch among [the major tobacco manufacturer's] brands.”
Holding that the Illinois Attorney General's concurrent prosecutorial authority was sufficient to establish the requisite connection for Ex parte Young, even where the Attorney General did not ordinarily prosecute regular criminal cases
Holding that because neither the plaintiff's product or the defendant's product had made it to the marketplace, "translat[ing] [the effect of defendant's breach of contract] into a dollar amount of lost expected profits to [the plaintiff] is impossible"