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ALASKA MINING COMPANY v. WHELAN

Term: 1897
Important Dates
Decided: October 18, 1897
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
7-2
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan

ALASKA MINING COMPANY v. WHELAN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 18, 1897.

In a 7-2 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 Alaska U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
Petitioner: Mining company or miner, excluding coal, oil, or pipeline company
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 168 U.S. 86
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: Horace Gray

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 conservative.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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