American Decades

Important Events in Law and Justice, 1990–1999

On January 3, Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno, dictator of Panama (1983–1989), is arrested on drug smuggling, racketeering, and money-laundering charges. He is sentenced to forty years in prison on July 10, 1992.
On January 9, in University of Pennsylvania and E.E.O.C. the Supreme Court ruled that requiring a university to disclose confidential peer review materials in a racial discrimination investigation does not violate the First Amendment.
On January 17, in Swaggart Ministries and California Board of Equalization, the Supreme Court rules that California's imposition of a sales and use tax on the sale of religious materials does not violate the Free Exercise or Establishment Clauses of the First Amendment.
On January 18, Raymond Buckey and Peggy McMartin Buckey, former preschool operators in California, are acquitted of fifty-two child molestation charges.

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