ALABAMA GREAT SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. THOMPSON (1906)

ALABAMA GREAT SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. THOMPSON
	Term: 1905
Important Dates
	Argued: November 9, 1905
	Decided: January 2, 1906
Outcome
	Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

ALABAMA GREAT SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. THOMPSON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 2, 1906. The case was argued before the court on November 9, 1905.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Tennessee U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Tennessee.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - comity primarily removal cases, civil procedure (cf. comity, criminal and First Amendment); deference to foreign judicial tribunals
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 200 U.S. 206
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
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: William Rufus Day

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.