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CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY v. MCLAUGHLIN (1886)

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CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY v. MCLAUGHLIN
Term: 1886
Important Dates
Argued: November 29, 1886
Decided: December 20, 1886
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
4-4
Equally divided vote
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite

CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY v. MCLAUGHLIN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 20, 1886. The case was argued before the court on November 29, 1886.

In a 4-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Iowa U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Iowa.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 119 U.S. 566
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
  • What type of decision was made: Equally divided vote
  • Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
  • 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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