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CALIFORNIA v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY (1894)

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CALIFORNIA v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY
Term: 1893
Important Dates
Decided: April 30, 1894
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Howell Edmunds Jackson • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

CALIFORNIA v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 30, 1894.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 9-0 ruling.

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 - Federal Rules of Civil Procedure including Supreme Court Rules, application of the Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure in civil litigation, Circuit Court Rules, and state rules and admiralty rules
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: California
  • Respondent type: Business, corporation
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 153 U.S. 239
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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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