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CARTER v. HAWAII (1906)

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CARTER v. HAWAII
Term: 1905
Important Dates
Argued: December 13, 1905
Decided: January 8, 1906
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

CARTER v. HAWAII is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 8, 1906. The case was argued before the court on December 13, 1905.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Hawaii Territorial Trial Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - state and territorial land claims
  • Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Hawaii
  • Citation: 200 U.S. 255
  • 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: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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