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BOWMAN v. CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY

Term: 1887
Important Dates
Decided: March 19, 1888
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-3
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller
Concurring
Stephen Johnson Field
Dissenting
Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Morrison Waite

BOWMAN v. CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 19, 1888.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Illinois.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal or state regulation of transportation regulation: railroad
Petitioner: Distributor, importer, or exporter of alcoholic beverages
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Railroad
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 125 U.S. 465
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: Stanley Matthews

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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