United States Parole Commission et al. v. Geraghty

Decided March 19, 1980. Harry Andrew Blackmun delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 78-572 · 445 U.S. 388 (1980) · Cited 1,936 times

Holding

An action brought on behalf of a class does not become moot upon expiration of the named plaintiff's substantive claim, even though class certification has been denied, since the proposed representative of the class retains a "personal stake" in obtaining class certification sufficient to assure that Art.

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How the Justices voted

Decided 5–4.

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Precedents cited

Supreme Court decisions this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases in our collection link through; others are named.

• Sosna v. Iowa · 419 U.S. 393 (1975)
• United Airlines, Inc. v. McDonald · 432 U.S. 385 (1977)
• Flast v. Cohen · 392 U.S. 83 (1968)
• Gerstein v. Pugh · 420 U.S. 103 (1975)
• Board of School Comm'rs of Indianapolis v. Jacobs · 420 U.S. 128 (1975)
• Weinstein v. Bradford · 423 U.S. 147 (1975)
• Franks v. Bowman Transportation Co. · 424 U.S. 747 (1976)
• Warth v. Seldin · 422 U.S. 490 (1975)
• Powell v. McCormack · 395 U.S. 486 (1969)
• Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · 437 U.S. 463 (1978)
• Pasadena City Board of Education v. Spangler · 427 U.S. 424 (1976)
• Baker v. Carr · 369 U.S. 186 (1962)
• O'Shea v. Littleton · 414 U.S. 488 (1974)
• Sierra Club v. Morton · 405 U.S. 727 (1972)
• Aetna Life Insurance v. Haworth · 300 U.S. 227 (1937)
• Gladstone, Realtors v. Village of Bellwood · 441 U.S. 91 (1979)
• Richardson v. Ramirez · 418 U.S. 24 (1974)
• Kremens v. Bartley · 431 U.S. 119 (1977)
• Roe v. Wade · 410 U.S. 113 (1973)
• Singleton v. Wulff · 428 U.S. 106 (1976)
• Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization · 426 U.S. 26 (1976)
• Schlesinger v. Reservists Committee to Stop the War · 418 U.S. 208 (1974)
• Preiser v. Newkirk · 422 U.S. 395 (1975)
• DeFunis v. Odegaard · 416 U.S. 312 (1974)
• Poe v. Ullman · 367 U.S. 497 (1961)
• Bell v. Wolfish · 441 U.S. 520 (1979)
• Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · 429 U.S. 252 (1977)
• Sibron v. New York · 392 U.S. 40 (1968)
• Steffel v. Thompson · 415 U.S. 452 (1974)
• Baxter v. Palmigiano · 425 U.S. 308 (1976)

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• Genesis HealthCare Corp. v. Symczyk · 569 U.S. 66 (2013)
• Peugh v. United States · 569 U.S. 530 (2013)
• United States v. Sanchez-Gomez · 584 U.S. 381 (2018)
• Nielsen v. Preap · 586 U.S. 392 (2019)
• Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services (TOC), Inc. · 528 U.S. 167 (2000)
• Mistretta v. United States · 488 U.S. 361 (1989)
• Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona · 520 U.S. 43 (1997)
• Honig v. Doe · 484 U.S. 305 (1988)
• Murphy v. Hunt · 455 U.S. 478 (1982)
• County of Riverside v. McLaughlin · 500 U.S. 44 (1991)
• Morrison v. Olson · 487 U.S. 654 (1988)
• Iron Arrow Honor Society v. Heckler · 464 U.S. 67 (1983)
• Ohio v. Kovacs · 469 U.S. 274 (1985)
• Alvarez v. Smith · 558 U.S. 87 (2009)
• Zivotofsky Ex Rel. Zivotofsky v. Clinton · 566 U.S. 189 (2012)
• Gollust v. Mendell · 501 U.S. 115 (1991)

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