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ATLANTIC DELAINE COMPANY v. JAMES (1877)

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ATLANTIC DELAINE COMPANY v. JAMES
Term: 1876
Important Dates
Argued: December 20, 1876
Decided: March 13, 1877
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-1
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Ward Hunt • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite
Dissenting
Nathan Clifford

ATLANTIC DELAINE COMPANY v. JAMES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 13, 1877. The case was argued before the court on December 20, 1876.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Rhode Island U.S. Circuit for the District of Rhode Island.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1870s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Contracts
  • Petitioner: Business, corporation
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Stockholder, shareholder, or bondholder
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 94 U.S. 207
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Strong

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 unspecifiable.

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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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