BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY v. JOY (1899)

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BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY v. JOY
Term: 1898
Important Dates
Decided: February 20, 1899
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah BrewerHenry Billings BrownMelville Weston FullerHorace GrayJohn Marshall HarlanJoseph McKennaRufus Wheeler PeckhamGeorge ShirasEdward Douglass White

BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY v. JOY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 20, 1899.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Ohio U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Ohio.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Physically injured person, including wrongful death, who is not an employee
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 173 U.S. 226
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • 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: John Marshall Harlan

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.

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