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CITY OF NEWARK v. STATE OF NEW JERSEY

Term: 1922
Important Dates
Argued: March 2, 1923
Decided: May 7, 1923
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

CITY OF NEWARK v. STATE OF NEW JERSEY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 7, 1923. The case was argued before the court on March 2, 1923.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the New Jersey State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Natural resources - environmental protection (cf. national supremacy: natural resources, national supremacy: pollution)
Petitioner: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Petitioner state: New Jersey
Respondent type: State
Respondent state: New Jersey
Citation: 262 U.S. 192
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: William Howard Taft
Who wrote the majority opinion: Pierce Butler

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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