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BOISE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS v. GORMAN (1874)

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BOISE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS v. GORMAN
Term: 1873
Important Dates
Decided: March 16, 1874
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Stephen Johnson Field • Ward Hunt • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite

BOISE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS v. GORMAN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 16, 1874.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case.

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: Due Process - due process: hearing or notice (other than as pertains to government employees or prisoners' rights)
  • Petitioner: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
  • Petitioner state: Idaho
  • Respondent type: Unidentifiable
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 131 U.S. cxxv
  • 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: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Morrison Waite

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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