BASIC INC. ET AL.

v.

LEVINSON ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• Carnegie-Mellon Univ. v. Cohill, 484 U.S. 343 (U.S. 1988)
  …to state court. Civ. Action No. 85-3619 (Nov. 24, 1986). Accordingly, the court issued an order denying petitioners’ application for a writ of mandamus. This order effectively left undisturbed the remand of respondents’ case. We granted certiorari, 479 U. S. 1083 (1987), to resolve the split among the Circuits as to whether a district court has discretion to remand a removed case to state court when all federal-law claims have dropped out of the action and only pendent state-law claims remain.5 We now affirm…
• Basic Inc. v. Levinson, 485 U.S. 224 (U.S. 1988)
  …respondents relied on petitioners’ material [*230] misrepresentations, -noting that without the presumption it would be impractical to certify a class under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3). See 786 F. 2d, at 750-751. We granted certiorari, 479 U. S. 1083 (1987), to resolve the split, see Part III, infra, among the Courts of Appeals as to the standard of materiality applicable to preliminary merger discussions, and to determine whether the courts below properly applied a presumption of reliance in ce…
• Forrester v. White, 484 U.S. 219 (U.S. 1988)
  …y, Mo., 729 F. 2d 541, 549, cert. denied, 469 U. S. 828 (1984), the United [*223] States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held that a judge was not immune from civil damages for his decision to demote a hearing officer. We granted certiorari, 479 U. S. 1083 (1987), to resolve the conflict. II Suits for monetary damages are meant to compensate the victims of wrongful actions and to discourage conduct that may result in liability. Special problems arise, however, when government officials are exposed t…