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BOARD OF LIQUIDATION OF NEW ORLEANS v. LOUISIANA

Term: 1900
Important Dates
Argued: December 4, 1900
Decided: January 7, 1901
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

BOARD OF LIQUIDATION OF NEW ORLEANS v. LOUISIANA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 7, 1901. The case was argued before the court on December 4, 1900.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Claims, Court of Federal Claims.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - comity: miscellaneous
Petitioner: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Petitioner state: Louisiana
Respondent type: State
Respondent state: Louisiana
Citation: 179 U.S. 622
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: Edward Douglass White

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 conservative.

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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