QUERN, DIRECTOR, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC AID OF ILLINOIS

v.

JORDAN

Citator

Cited By (81 total)

• Quern v. Jordan, 440 U.S. 332 (U.S. 1979)
  …t conflict between the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in this case and that of the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Fanty v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Public Welfare, 551 F. 2d 2 (1977).2 435 U. S. 904 (1978). We believe that the case as it now comes to us involves little, if any, unbroken ground in this area, and affirm the judgment of the Seventh Circuit. Following our remand in Edelman, the United States District Court for the Northern Distr…
• Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno, 454 U.S. 235 (U.S. 1981)
  …its own choice of law, give the plaintiff the benefit of the claim to which she is entitled here, would dismissal be justified.” 630 F. 2d, at 163-164 (footnote omitted) (quoting DeMateos v. Texaco, Inc., 562 F. 2d 895, 899 (CA3 1977), cert. denied, 435 U. S. 904 (1978)). In other words, the court decided that dismissal is automatically barred if it would lead to a change in the applicable law unfavorable to the plaintiff. We granted certiorari in these cases to consider the questions they raise concerning…

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• United States v. Louin Ray Bright, 630 F.2d 804 (5th Cir. 1980)
  …ilton was Sheriff of DeSoto County and a public officer of the State of Mississippi. . There is no contention that the Sheriff’s office was not nor could not be an enterprise. See United States v. Brown, 555 F. 2d 407 (5th Cir. 1977), cert. denied, 435 U.S. 904, 98 S.Ct. 1448, 55 L.Ed.2d 494 (1978).44 Thus, the essential question in reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence oh the substantive RICO count is whether there was sufficient proof that each defendant was associated with the Sheriff’s office and…