Term recap
October Term 1991 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1991, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
119
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
40
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down October 15, 1991 and the last on July 17, 1992. The busiest single day was March 9, 1992 with 6 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
October 1991 · 2 decisions
November 1991 · 2 decisions
December 1991 · 14 decisions
- Griffin v. United States
- Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System v. MCorp Financial, Inc.
- Estelle v. McGuire
- Wooddell v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 71
- Southwest Marine, Inc. v. Gizoni
- GIBSON v. FLORIDA BAR Et Al.
- Ardestani v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
- Simon & Schuster, Inc. v. Members of the New York State Crime Victims Board
- Union Bank v. Wolas
- King v. St. Vincent's Hospital
- Immigration & Naturalization Service v. National Center for Immigrants' Rights, Inc.
- United States Department of State v. Ray
- Hilton v. South Carolina Public Railways Commission
- Hunter v. Bryant
January 1992 · 13 decisions
- In Re Blodgett
- Norman v. Reed
- Molzof v. United States
- County of Yakima v. Confederated Tribes & Bands of the Yakima Indian Nation
- Smith v. Barry
- Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Doherty
- White v. Illinois
- Dewsnup v. Timm
- Rufo v. Inmates of Suffolk County Jail
- Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Elias-Zacarias
- Wyoming v. Oklahoma
- Lechmere, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board
- Presley v. Etowah County Commission
February 1992 · 7 decisions
March 1992 · 19 decisions
- Willy v. Coastal Corp.
- McCarthy v. Madigan
- Williams v. United States
- Stringer v. Black
- Dawson v. Delaware
- Connecticut National Bank v. Germain
- PFZ Properties, Inc. v. Rodriguez
- General Motors Corp. v. Romein
- Holmes v. Securities Investor Protection Corporation
- United States v. Wilson
- Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Darden
- United States v. RLC
- United States v. Felix
- National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. Boston & Maine Corp.
- Robertson v. Seattle Audubon Society
- Barnhill v. Johnson
- Suter v. Artist M.
- Freeman v. Pitts
- United States Department of Commerce v. Montana
April 1992 · 8 decisions
May 1992 · 12 decisions
June 1992 · 41 decisions
- Chemical Waste Management, Inc. v. Hunt
- Fort Gratiot Sanitary Landfill, Inc. v. Michigan Department of Natural Resources
- Morales v. Trans World Airlines, Inc.
- United States v. Thompson/Center Arms Co.
- Burdick v. Takushi
- Eastman Kodak Co. v. Image Technical Services, Inc.
- Sochor v. Florida
- Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife
- Burlington Northern Railroad v. Ford
- Republic of Argentina v. Weltover, Inc.
- Federal Trade Commission v. Ticor Title Insurance
- Ankenbrandt Ex Rel. L. R. v. Richards
- Allied-Signal, Inc. Ex Rel. Bendix Corp. v. Director, Division of Taxation
- Morgan v. Illinois
- Patterson v. Shumate
- Nordlinger v. Hahn
- Kraft General Foods, Inc. v. Iowa Department of Revenue & Finance
- Georgia v. McCollum
- Gade v. National Solid Wastes Management Assn.
- Wright v. West
- American National Red Cross v. S. G.
- United States v. Salerno
- Forsyth County v. Nationalist Movement
- Wisconsin Department of Revenue v. William Wrigley, Jr., Co.
- New York v. United States
- Estate of Cowart v. Nicklos Drilling Co.
- Medina v. California
- R. A. v. v. City of St. Paul
- Sawyer v. Whitley
- Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc.
- City of Burlington v. Dague
- Doggett v. United States
- Lee v. Weisman
- Lee v. International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Inc.
- Two Pesos, Inc. v. Taco Cabana, Inc.
- International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Inc. v. Lee
- Franklin v. Massachusetts
- United States v. Fordice
- Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey
- Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council
- Espinosa v. Florida
July 1992 · 1 decision
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