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BOSQUE v. UNITED STATES (1908)
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| BOSQUE v. UNITED STATES |
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| Term: 1907 |
| Important Dates |
| Argued: January 29, 1908 |
| Decided: March 23, 1908 |
| Outcome |
| Affirmed (includes modified) |
| Vote |
| 9-0 |
| Majority |
| David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White |
BOSQUE v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 23, 1908. The case was argued before the court on January 29, 1908.
In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Philippines Territorial Supreme Court.
For a full list of cases decided in the 1900s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.
About the case
- Subject matter: Attorneys - Admission to a state or federal bar, disbarment, and attorney discipline (cf. loyalty oath: bar applicants)
- Petitioner: Attorney, or person acting as such;includes bar applicant or law student, or law firm or bar association
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: United States
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 209 U.S. 91
- 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: Melville Weston Fuller
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.
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