BUNKER HILL & SULLIVAN MINING AND CONCENTRATING COMPANY v. UNITED STATES (1913) - Ballotpedia

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BUNKER HILL & SULLIVAN MINING AND CONCENTRATING COMPANY v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1912
Important Dates
Decided: January 6, 1913
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

BUNKER HILL & SULLIVAN MINING AND CONCENTRATING COMPANY v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 6, 1913.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Idaho U.S. Circuit Court for (all) District(s) of Idaho.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1910s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the White Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Natural resources - environmental protection (cf. national supremacy: natural resources, national supremacy: pollution)
Petitioner: Buyer, purchaser
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 226 U.S. 548
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: Edward Douglass White
Who wrote the majority opinion: Joseph Rucker Lamar

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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