77 Cited authorities

  1. Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly

    550 U.S. 544 (2007)   Cited 269,161 times   367 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a complaint's allegations should "contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to 'state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face' "
  2. District of Columbia et al. v. Heller

    554 U.S. 570 (2008)   Cited 3,571 times   51 Legal Analyses
    Holding it irrelevant to the constitutionality of D.C.'s "handgun" ban that the law allowed citizens the possession of substitutes, like "long guns"
  3. Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, Inc.

    473 U.S. 432 (1985)   Cited 9,766 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that mental disability is not a quasi-suspect class
  4. McDonald v. City of Chicago

    561 U.S. 742 (2010)   Cited 2,349 times   22 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the Second Amendment applies to the states, through incorporation under the Fourteenth Amendment
  5. United States v. Salerno

    481 U.S. 739 (1987)   Cited 5,463 times   15 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "extensive safeguards" are necessary "to repel a facial challenge"
  6. Lane v. Pena

    518 U.S. 187 (1996)   Cited 1,884 times
    Holding that any waiver of "sovereign immunity must be unequivocally expressed in statutory text" and "will be strictly construed, in terms of its scope, in favor of the sovereign"
  7. Gonzales v. Raich

    545 U.S. 1 (2005)   Cited 1,147 times   46 Legal Analyses
    Holding that because “Congress had a rational basis” for concluding that a statute implements Commerce Clause power, the statute falls within the scope of congressional “authority to ‘make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper’ to ‘regulate Commerce ... among the several States' ”
  8. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission

    512 U.S. 622 (1994)   Cited 1,302 times   7 Legal Analyses
    Holding that rules that distinguish "based only upon the manner in which speakers transmit their messages to viewers, and not upon the messages they carry" are content-neutral
  9. Rutan v. Republican Party of Illinois

    497 U.S. 62 (1990)   Cited 1,274 times
    Holding that Elrod–Branti doctrine also applies to “promotion, transfer, recall, and hiring decisions”
  10. Department of Army v. Blue Fox, Inc.

    525 U.S. 255 (1999)   Cited 602 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that sovereign immunity bars an APA claim for money damages even when pursued as an equitable remedy
  11. Rule 12 - Defenses and Objections: When and How Presented; Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings; Consolidating Motions; Waiving Defenses; Pretrial Hearing

    Fed. R. Civ. P. 12   Cited 348,708 times   930 Legal Analyses
    Granting the court discretion to exclude matters outside the pleadings presented to the court in defense of a motion to dismiss
  12. Section 922 - Unlawful acts

    18 U.S.C. § 922   Cited 60,970 times   186 Legal Analyses
    Finding that "even before the sale of a firearm, the gun, its component parts, ammunition, and the raw materials from which they are made have considerably moved in interstate commerce"
  13. Section 2680 - Exceptions

    28 U.S.C. § 2680   Cited 7,710 times   12 Legal Analyses
    Concluding that claims for injurious falsehoods, disparagement of property, slander of goods, or trade libel are claims arising out of libel or slander under the FTCA
  14. Section 2675 - Disposition by federal agency as prerequisite; evidence

    28 U.S.C. § 2675   Cited 7,121 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Setting forth FTCA's administrative exhaustion requirement
  15. Section 702 - Right of review

    5 U.S.C. § 702   Cited 7,101 times   25 Legal Analyses
    Granting judicial review of "agency action"
  16. Section 2679 - Exclusiveness of remedy

    28 U.S.C. § 2679   Cited 5,361 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Granting tort immunity to federal agency employees
  17. Section 802 - Definitions

    21 U.S.C. § 802   Cited 3,963 times   81 Legal Analyses
    Excluding hemp from the schedules
  18. Section 844 - Penalties for simple possession

    21 U.S.C. § 844   Cited 2,905 times   18 Legal Analyses
    Providing for "a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year" for possession offenses except for repeat offenders, persons who possess more than five grams of cocaine base, and persons who possess flunitrazepam
  19. Section 812 - Schedules of controlled substances

    21 U.S.C. § 812   Cited 2,828 times   76 Legal Analyses
    Criminalizing heroin
  20. Section 823 - Registration requirements

    21 U.S.C. § 823   Cited 189 times   22 Legal Analyses
    Recognizing that exception for the use of Schedule I drugs