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ALBERTY v. UNITED STATES (1896)

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ALBERTY v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1895
Important Dates
Decided: April 20, 1896
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah BrewerHenry Billings BrownStephen Johnson FieldMelville Weston FullerHorace GrayJohn Marshall HarlanRufus Wheeler PeckhamGeorge ShirasEdward Douglass White

ALBERTY v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 20, 1896.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Arkansas U.S. Circuit Court for (all) District(s) of Arkansas.

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.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - Indians (other than pertains to state jurisdiction over)
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 162 U.S. 499
  • 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: Henry Billings Brown

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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