Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Civil Procedure : From 10/01/01 To 07/01/02
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law |
| Title: | DEVLIN v. SCARDELLETTI |
| Date: | 06/10/02 |
| Case Number: | 01-417 |
| Summary: | An unnamed class member, who objects in a timely manner to the approval of a settlement at a fairness hearing, may bring an appeal without first intervening. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, International Law |
| Title: | JP MORGAN CHASE BANK v. TRAFFIC STREAM (BVI) INFRASTRUCTURE LTD. |
| Date: | 06/10/02 |
| Case Number: | 01-651 |
| Summary: | A corporation organized under the laws of the British Virgin Islands is a "citizen or subject of a foreign state" for the purposes of alienage diversity jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. section 1332(a)(2). |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law |
| Title: | NAT'L R.R. PASSENGER CORP. v. MORGAN |
| Date: | 06/10/02 |
| Case Number: | 00-1614 |
| Summary: | A Title VII plaintiff must file his discriminatory or retaliatory employment claims within the appropriate 180- or 300- day period, but a hostile work environment charge is not time barred if all acts underlying the claim are part of the same unlawful practice, and at least one act falls within the filing period; equitable doctrines may toll or limit either period. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Patent, Trade Dress |
| Title: | HOLMES GROUP, INC. v. VORNADO AIR CIRCULATION SYS., INC. |
| Date: | 06/03/02 |
| Case Number: | 01-408 |
| Summary: | Where a complaint seeks declaratory judgment of non-infringement of trade dress and an injunction against such accusations, but does not assert a patent law claim, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals cannot assert jurisdiction over the case, although the answer contains a patent law counterclaim. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Public Utilities |
| Title: | VERIZON MARYLAND INC. v. PUB. UTIL. COMM'N OF MARYLAND |
| Date: | 05/20/02 |
| Case Number: | 00-1531 |
| Summary: | Jurisdiction is found under 28 U.S.C. section 1331, for a local-exchange carrier's claim that a state public utility commission's order, requiring reciprocal compensation for ISP-bound calls, is pre-empted by federal law; suit against commissioners in their individual capacities is not barred by Ex Parte Young, 209 U.S. 123, where no past liability of the state or its commissioners is at issue. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law |
| Title: | LAPIDES v. BD. OF REGENTS OF UNIV. SYS. OF GEORGIA |
| Date: | 05/13/02 |
| Case Number: | 01-298 |
| Summary: | A state waives its Eleventh Amendment immunity when it voluntarily invokes federal court jurisdiction by removing a case from state court to federal court. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law |
| Title: | RAYGOR v. REGENTS OF THE UNIV. OF MINNESOTA |
| Date: | 02/27/02 |
| Case Number: | 00-1514 |
| Summary: | The federal supplemental jurisdiction statute, 28 U.S.C. section 1367, will not toll the statute of limitations for state law claims made against nonconsenting state defendants that are dismissed on Eleventh Amendment grounds. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Civil Rights |
| Title: | PORTER v. NUSSLE |
| Date: | 02/26/02 |
| Case Number: | 00-853 |
| Summary: | The Prison Litigation Reform Act and its exhaustion requirement are applicable to all inmate lawsuits regarding prison life, regardless of whether the suit involves general circumstances or particular episodes, and whether the pleadings allege excessive force or another wrong. |