AMERICAN SUGAR REFINING COMPANY v. NEW ORLEANS (1901)

AMERICAN SUGAR REFINING COMPANY v. NEW ORLEANS
	Term: 1900
Important Dates
	Argued: March 18, 1901
	Decided: April 29, 1901
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Concurring
	Horace Gray

AMERICAN SUGAR REFINING COMPANY v. NEW ORLEANS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 29, 1901. The case was argued before the court on March 18, 1901.

In a 9-0 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 Louisiana U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Louisiana.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: jurisdiction or authority of federal courts of appeals
Petitioner: Business, corporation
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Respondent state: Louisiana
Citation: 181 U.S. 277
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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: Melville Weston Fuller

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.