HERNANDEZ

v.

COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

Citator

Cited By

• Will v. Mich. Dep't of State Police, 491 U.S. 58 (U.S. 1989)
  …icial capacity also is not such a person. The Michigan Supreme Court’s holding that a State is not a person under § 1983 conflicts with a number of state- and federal-court decisions to the contrary.3 We granted certio-rari to resolve the conflict. 485 U. S. 1005 (1988). [*62] Prior to Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Services, 436 U. S. 668 (1978), the question whether a State is a person within the meaning of § 1983 had been answered by this Court in the negative. In Monroe v. Pape, 365 U. S. 167, 1…
• United States Dep't of Just. v. Reporters Comm. for Freedom of the Press, 489 U.S. 749 (U.S. 1989)
  …s in original). [*762] The Court of Appeals denied rehearing en banc, with four judges dissenting. App. to Pet. for Cert. 64a-66a. Because of the potential effect of the Court of Appeals’ opinion on values of personal privacy, we granted certiorari. 485 U. S. 1005 (1988). We now reverse.12 > Exemption 7(C) requires us to balance the privacy interest in maintaining, as the Government puts it, the “practical obscurity” of the rap sheets against the public interest in their release. The preliminary question…
• Argentine Republic v. Amerada Hess Shipping Corp., 488 U.S. 428 (U.S. 1989)
  …edies in United States courts for violations of international law” by foreign states under the Alien Tort Statute. 830 F. 2d, at 426. The dissenting judge took the view that the FSIA precluded respondents’ action. Id., at 431. We granted certiorari, 485 U. S. 1005 (1988), and now reverse. We start from the settled proposition that the subject-matter jurisdiction of the lower federal courts is determined by Congress “in the exact degrees and character which to Congress may seem proper for the public good.” Ca…