ALBANY BRIDGE CASE (1865)

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ALBANY BRIDGE CASE
Term: 1864
Important Dates
Argued: January 10, 1865
Decided: February 27, 1865
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
4-4
Equally divided vote
Salmon Portland Chase • Nathan Clifford • Stephen Johnson Field • Robert Cooper Grier • Samuel Freeman Miller • Samuel Nelson • Noah Haynes Swayne • James Moore Wayne

ALBANY BRIDGE CASE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 27, 1865. The case was argued before the court on January 10, 1865.

In a 4-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New York.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1860s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Chase Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - State or local government regulation, especially of business (cf. federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction, federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation)
  • Petitioner: Unidentifiable
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Construction industry
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 69 U.S. 403
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Equally divided vote
  • Who was the chief justice: Salmon Portland Chase
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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 unspecifiable.

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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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