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BARNEY v. LATHAM (1881)

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BARNEY v. LATHAM
Term: 1880
Important Dates
Decided: April 18, 1881
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
4-3
Majority
Joseph Bradley • John Marshall Harlan • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne
Dissenting
Stephen Johnson Field • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite

BARNEY v. LATHAM is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 18, 1881.

In a 4-3 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 Minnesota U.S. Circuit for the District of Minnesota.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - comity primarily removal cases, civil procedure (cf. comity, criminal and First Amendment); deference to foreign judicial tribunals
  • Petitioner: Business, corporation
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Heir, or beneficiary, or person so claiming to be
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 103 U.S. 205
  • 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: 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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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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