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CLIFF v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1904
Important Dates
Argued: December 2, 1903
Decided: October 24, 1904
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham

CLIFF v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 24, 1904. The case was argued before the court on December 2, 1903.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois Northern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - federal or state consumer protection: typically under the Truth in Lending; Food, Drug and Cosmetic; and Consumer Protection Credit Acts
Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 195 U.S. 159
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: David Josiah Brewer

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 conservative.

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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