ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY v. IOWA (1905)

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ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY v. IOWA
Term: 1904
Important Dates
Argued: December 2, 1904
Decided: January 3, 1905
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
8-1
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan

ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY v. IOWA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 3, 1905. The case was argued before the court on December 2, 1904.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Iowa State Trial Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federalism - federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction
  • Petitioner: Distributor, importer, or exporter of alcoholic beverages
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Iowa
  • Citation: 196 U.S. 147
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Edward Douglass White

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as liberal.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024
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