BUTLER v. NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS (1892)

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BUTLER v. NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS
Term: 1891
Important Dates
Argued: March 1, 1892
Decided: March 14, 1892
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-1
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • David Josiah Brewer • Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
Dissenting
Henry Billings Brown

BUTLER v. NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 14, 1892. The case was argued before the court on March 1, 1892.

In a 5-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Massachusetts U.S. Circuit for the District of Massachusetts.

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.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - comity primarily removal cases, civil procedure (cf. comity, criminal and First Amendment); deference to foreign judicial tribunals
  • Petitioner: Business, corporation
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Defendant
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 144 U.S. 64
  • 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: John Marshall Harlan

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.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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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