Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Marshall v. Lonberger
Marshall v. Lonberger, 454 U.S. 1141 (1982)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1982-01-11
- Topic
- labor-and-employment
How later courts describe this case
- rejecting this reasoning in Brown and Waite and holding that confinement of an insanity acquittee under the D.C.Code is not based on any punitive considerations
- ipse dixit assertion that presumption of continuing dangerousness and mental illness "is both reasonable and valid."
Citator
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