BUCK v. BEACH, TREASURER OF TIPPECANOE COUNTY, INDIANA (1907)

BUCK v. BEACH, TREASURER OF TIPPECANOE COUNTY, INDIANA
	Term: 1906
Important Dates
	Argued: March 22, 1907
	Decided: May 27, 1907
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	7-2
Majority
	Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day

BUCK v. BEACH, TREASURER OF TIPPECANOE COUNTY, INDIANA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 27, 1907. The case was argued before the court on March 22, 1907.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Indiana State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Due Process - Due process: jurisdiction (jurisdiction over non-resident litigants)
Petitioner: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Respondent state: Indiana
Citation: 206 U.S. 392
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: Rufus Wheeler Peckham

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.