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AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY v. MICHIGAN (1900)

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AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY v. MICHIGAN
Term: 1899
Important Dates
Argued: November 9, 1899
Decided: April 16, 1900
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-2
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna

AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY v. MICHIGAN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 16, 1900. The case was argued before the court on November 9, 1899.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Michigan State Trial 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.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
  • Petitioner: Business, corporation
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Michigan
  • Citation: 177 U.S. 404
  • 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 conservative.

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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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