BRASS v. NORTH DAKOTA, EX REL. STOESER (1894) - Ballotpedia

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BRASS v. NORTH DAKOTA, EX REL. STOESER

Term: 1893
Important Dates
Argued: April 26, 1894
Decided: May 14, 1894
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • George Shiras
Dissenting
David Josiah Brewer • Stephen Johnson Field • Howell Edmunds Jackson • Edward Douglass White

BRASS v. NORTH DAKOTA, EX REL. STOESER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 14, 1894. The case was argued before the court on April 26, 1894.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the North Dakota State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - State or local government regulation, especially of business (cf. federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction, federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation)
Petitioner: Farmer, farm worker, or farm organization
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State
Respondent state: North Dakota
Citation: 153 U.S. 391
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: George Shiras

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.

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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