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BESSETTE v. W. B. CONKEY COMPANY

Term: 1903
Important Dates
Argued: April 7, 1904
Decided: May 16, 1904
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

BESSETTE v. W. B. CONKEY COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 16, 1904. The case was argued before the court on April 7, 1904.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Indiana U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Contempt of court or congress
Petitioner: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Publisher, publishing company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 194 U.S. 324
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: David Josiah Brewer

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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