BRYAN, COLLECTOR OF THE PORT OF CHARLESTON v. KER, EXECUTRI (1911)

BRYAN, COLLECTOR OF THE PORT OF CHARLESTON v. KER, EXECUTRI
	Term: 1911
Important Dates
	Argued: October 25, 1911
	Decided: November 20, 1911
Outcome
	Reversed
Vote
	7-0
Majority
	Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

BRYAN, COLLECTOR OF THE PORT OF CHARLESTON v. KER, EXECUTRI is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 20, 1911. The case was argued before the court on October 25, 1911.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the South Carolina U.S. Circuit for the District of South Carolina.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
Petitioner: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Petitioner state: United States
Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 222 U.S. 107
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
Who wrote the majority opinion: Willis Van Devanter

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.