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COLOMBIA v. CAUCA COMPANY

Term: 1902
Important Dates
Argued: April 23, 1903
Decided: May 18, 1903
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
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

COLOMBIA v. CAUCA COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 18, 1903. The case was argued before the court on April 23, 1903.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the West Virginia U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of West Virginia.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Miscellaneous economic regulation
Petitioner: Foreign nation or instrumentality
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Railroad
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 190 U.S. 524
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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.

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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