Bernal-Rodriguez v. United States

Parentheticals

• in remittitur case can appeal issue only if "separate and distinct" claim from subject matter of remittitur

  Arizona State Carpenters Pension Trust Fund, a Trust v. William E. Miller, and Georgia Miller, His Wife Keith E. Dolgaard, and Pleidas Dolgaard, His Wife Arizona Trust Company, an Arizona Corporation Arizona Trust Company Escrow Agency, Inc., an Arizona Company Indian Summer Investors, Inc., an Arizona Corporation Cougar Enterprise, Inc., an Arizona Corporation, Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company, a New York Corporation, Intervenor-Appellee. Arizona State Carpenters Pension Trust Fund, a Trust v. William E. Miller, and Georgia Miller, His Wife Mitchell Hutchins Institutional Investors, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company, a New York Corporation, Intervenor-Appellee

• SUNY is an integral part of the government of New York State, and when it is sued the state is the real party

  Stephens v. State University of New York at Buffalo

• in remittitur case can appeal issue only if “separate and distinct” claim from subject matter of remittitur

  Arizona State Carpenters Pension Trust Fund v. Miller

• “[o]n only one occasion has the Supreme Court struck down a state statute as violative of the. foreign relations power”

  International Ass'n of Independent Tanker Owners v. Lowry

• scientist employed by a firm under contract with the National Cancer Institute was a limited purpose public figure

  Nicholson v. Promotors on Listings

• review of the merits is within court’s discretion

  Ryan v. City of Augusta

• requiring plaintiffs to establish five separate elements

  State Ex Rel. Suriano v. Gaughan