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Timestamp: 2019-04-20 00:44:57+00:00

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Government contractors, immune from state liability, federal law preempts state law, federal common law, preemption.
International Ore & Fertilizer Corp. v. SGS Control Services, Inc.
appellate courts, cross appeal requirement, appellate record.
Larson v. American Family Mutual Ins. Co.; an attorney's failure to sue an insurance company because he wanted to work there landed him in the same lawsuit.
Helicopteros Nacionales de Colombia, S.A. v. Hall; buying products from a different state does not expose buyer to court jurisdiction unless sales resulted in other connections.
Szendry-Ramos v. First Bancorp; no supplemental jurisdiction (formerly ancillary jurisdiction or pendent jurisdiction) if plaintiff's state law claims substantially predominate over the federal claims or raise complex or novel issues of state law.
Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly; sufficient factual allegations required for Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a)(2) short and plain statement of the claim showing that pleader is entitled to relief, give the defendant fair notice of claim and grounds upon which it rests.
Jones v. Bock; prisoners must exhaust their remedies through the prison system before bringing a lawsuit.
Silvestri v. General Motors Corp.; sanctionable spoliation is destruction or material alteration of evidence or failure to preserve property for another's use as evidence in pending or reasonably foreseeable litigation; manufacturer opportunity to inspect.
Ferguson v. Countrywide Credit Industries, Inc.; procedural and substantive elements of unconscionability required to render a contract unenforceable; arbitration clause; FAA Federal Arbitration Act.
Carter v. Countrywide Credit Industries, Inc.; FLSA disputes may be arbitrated under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) absent grounds that exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract.
Harnden v. Jayco, Inc.; summary judgment testimony usually form of an affidavit or sworn statement even if a court's consideration of inadmissible evidence is in error, such error is harmless it if does not affect any party's substantial rights.
Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Allapattah Services; class action, if named plaintiff meets requirement, supplemental jurisdiction over claims in same case or controversy even if claims for less than jurisdictional amount for diversity jurisdiction; Article III.
Grable & Sons Metal Products, Inc. v. Darue Engineering & Manufacturing; The national interest in providing a federal forum for federal tax litigation is sufficiently substantial to support the exercise of federal question jurisdiction.
United Mine Workers v. Gibbs; The exercise of pendent jurisdiction is within the sound discretion of the trial court; primary boycott; secondary boycott; supplemental jurisdiction.
Bowles v. Russell; Time limits for filing a notice of appeal are jurisdictional in nature, and the untimely filing of notice, even if filed in reliance on a district court order, deprives the court of appeals of jurisdiction; equitable; habeas corpus.
Ashcroft v. ACLU; statute that suppresses a substantial amount of protected speech is unconstitutional if less restrictive alternatives exist to further the governmental objective; content-based restriction; preliminary injunction.
Chaplin v. Du Pont Advance Fiber Sys; Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11, a complaint must not be presented for an improper purpose, such as to harass or to cause unnecessary delay or cost of litigation; contain claims warranted by existing law.
Quinby v. WestLB AG; A court may shift the cost of restoring and searching for relevant information in an electronic form when the party who converts the data into an inaccessible format should have reasonably anticipated a need to produce that data.
Scott v. Harris; When opposing parties tell two different stories, and one is blatantly contradicted by the record so that no reasonable jury could believe it, a court should not adopt that version for purposes of ruling on a motion for summary judgment.
Lopez v. City of Irvington; joinder of claims; sever claims; a single transaction may encompass multiple occurrences.
Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Shutts; minimum contacts are not required for absent class action plaintiffs.
Freeland v. Liberty Mut. Fire Ins. Co.; to support diversity jurisdiction, amount in controversy is the value of the consequences that may result from the litigation.
H.K. Hullin International Trade Co., Ltd. v. Kevin Multiline Polymer, Inc.; No diversity exists in suits between resident and nonresident aliens.
Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co.; Appearance of risk of actual judicial bias may require a judge to recuse himself from consideration of a particular case.

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