Goodyear Dunlop Tires Oper. v. Brown

Holding "the sales of petitioners' tires sporadically made in North Carolina through intermediaries" insufficient to support general jurisdiction

Pennhurst State School Hosp. v. Halderman

Holding that sovereign immunity prohibits federal courts from "instruct[ing] state officials on how to conform their conduct to state law"

World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson

Holding that an Oklahoma court could not exercise personal jurisdiction over a car retailer when the retailer's only connection to Oklahoma was the fact that a car sold in New York became involved in an accident in Oklahoma

Mt. Healthy City Board of Ed. v. Doyle

Holding if a plaintiff can show a prima facie case of First Amendment retaliation, the district court should go on to determine whether the defendant has shown "by a preponderance of the evidence that it would have reached the same decision ... even in the absence of the protected conduct"

Alden v. Maine

Holding that sovereign immunity prohibits a private citizen from suing a State in state court

College Savings Bank v. Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board

Holding there is no fundamental property right in "the activity of doing business, or the activity of making a profit"

Int'l Shoe Co. v. Washington

Holding that states may exercise personal jurisdiction over out-of-state defendants with "certain minimum contacts with [the forum] such that the maintenance of the suit does not offend ‘traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice’ " (quoting Milliken v. Meyer , 311 U.S. 457, 463, 61 S.Ct. 339, 85 L.Ed. 278 (1940) )

Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer

Holding that state sovereign immunity is necessarily limited by the enforcement provision of the Fourteenth Amendment

Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corp. v. Feeney

Holding a statute providing for "consent to suits, actions, or proceedings of any form or nature" was ambiguous

Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board v. College Savings Bank

Holding remedy unconstitutional because its scope was incongruous to the scant history of unconstitutional state action

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 1346 - United States as defendant

Determining liability to the claimant "in accordance with the law of the place where the act or omission occurred"

Section 41-4-18 - Jurisdiction; appeals; venue