CALIFORNIA REDUCTION COMPANY v. SANITARY REDUCTION WORK (1905)

CALIFORNIA REDUCTION COMPANY v. SANITARY REDUCTION WORK
	Term: 1905
Important Dates
	Argued: October 26, 1905
	Decided: November 27, 1905
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	7-2
Majority
	Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	David Josiah Brewer • Rufus Wheeler Peckham

CALIFORNIA REDUCTION COMPANY v. SANITARY REDUCTION WORK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 27, 1905. The case was argued before the court on October 26, 1905.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of California.

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About the case

Subject matter: Due Process - Due process: takings clause, or other non-constitutional governmental taking of property
Petitioner: Public utility
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Local governmental unit other than a county, city, town, township, village, or borough
Respondent state: California
Citation: 199 U.S. 306
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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.