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CASE v. BEAUREGARD (1879)

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CASE v. BEAUREGARD
Term: 1878
Important Dates
Argued: January 30, 1879
Decided: March 24, 1879
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite

CASE v. BEAUREGARD is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 24, 1879. The case was argued before the court on January 30, 1879.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Louisiana U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Louisiana.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1870s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Commercial transactions
  • Petitioner: Bankrupt person or business, or business in reorganization
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Professional organization, business, or person
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 99 U.S. 119
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Strong

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 unspecifiable.

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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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