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Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife 1992 Standing in a suit to enforce the Endangered Species Act
United States v. Thompson-Center Arms Company 1992 taxation of firearms
Quill Corp. v. North Dakota 1992 Requiring out-of-state mail order vendor to collect use tax unconstitutionally burdened interstate commerce
Riggins v. Nevada 1992 Forced psychiatric medication during trial violated defendant's rights under Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments
Foucha v. Louisiana 1992 criteria for the continued involuntary commitment of an individual who had been found not guilty by reason of insanity
Jacobson v. United States 1992 entrapment occurs when government creates predisposition to commit offense where it did not exist
United States v. Felix 1992 conviction of a defendant for a crime and for a conspiracy to commit the same offense does not create double jeopardy
INDOPCO, Inc. v. Commissioner 1992 Expenditures incurred by a target corporation in the course of a friendly takeover are nondeductible capital expenditures under the Internal Revenue Code
Hudson v. McMillian 1992 excessive force against prison inmates, 8th Amendment
Lechmere, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board 1992 employer can exclude nonemployee union organizers from private company property
INS v. Elias-Zacarias 1992 asylum on account of political opinion must be based on the refugee's political opinion
Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Doherty 1992 U.S. Attorney General has broad discretion to reopen deportation proceedings
Simon & Schuster v. Crime Victims Board 1991 holding that New York's Son of Sam law violated the First Amendment
Harmelin v. Michigan 1991 life imprisonment for cocaine possession
Peretz v. United States 1991 Docket No: none
role of magistrate judges in jury selection in a felony trial
Payne v. Tennessee 1991 admissibility of victim impact statements, stare decisis could be disregarded where fairness to victim's rights had priority over the demands of consistency in the common law.
Cohen v. Cowles Media Co. 1991 First Amendment, freedom of the press
Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc. 1991 First Amendment and the restriction of nude dancing
Florida v. Bostick 1991 random bus searches routinely conducted pursuant to passenger's consent
McNeil v. Wisconsin 1991 differences between the rights secured by the Fifth Amendment and the Sixth Amendment