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ARMOUR PACKING COMPANY v. LACY

Term: 1905
Important Dates
Argued: November 8, 1905
Decided: January 8, 1906
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes
Dissenting
Henry Billings Brown • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

ARMOUR PACKING COMPANY v. LACY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 8, 1906. The case was argued before the court on November 8, 1905.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the North Carolina State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
Petitioner: Food, meat packing, or processing company, stockyard
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Respondent state: North Carolina
Citation: 200 U.S. 226
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: 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.

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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