AMERICAN RAILROAD COMPANY OF PORTO RICO v. DE CASTRO (1907) - Ballotpedia

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AMERICAN RAILROAD COMPANY OF PORTO RICO v. DE CASTRO

Term: 1906
Important Dates
Argued: January 14, 1907
Decided: February 25, 1907
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

AMERICAN RAILROAD COMPANY OF PORTO RICO v. DE CASTRO is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 25, 1907. The case was argued before the court on January 14, 1907.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Puerto Rico U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - Supreme Court's certiorari, writ of error, or appeals jurisdiction
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Physically injured person, including wrongful death, who is not an employee
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 210 U.S. 440
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.

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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