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BOWKER v. UNITED STATES (1902)

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BOWKER v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1901
Important Dates
Argued: May 1, 1902
Decided: May 19, 1902
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
7-2
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras
Dissenting
Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White

BOWKER v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 19, 1902. The case was argued before the court on May 1, 1902.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the New Jersey U.S. District 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.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: review of non-final order
  • Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 186 U.S. 135
  • 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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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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