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CAFFREY v. OKLAHOMA TERRITORY

Term: 1899
Important Dates
Argued: March 13, 1900
Decided: April 9, 1900
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

CAFFREY v. OKLAHOMA TERRITORY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 9, 1900. The case was argued before the court on March 13, 1900.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Oklahoma Territorial Supreme Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - Supreme Court's certiorari, writ of error, or appeals jurisdiction
Petitioner: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Petitioner state: Oklahoma
Respondent type: State
Respondent state: Oklahoma
Citation: 177 U.S. 346
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: Joseph McKenna

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 conservative.

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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