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COMPANIA BILBAINA DE NAVEGACION, DE BILBAO v. SPANISH-AMERICAN LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY (1892)

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COMPANIA BILBAINA DE NAVEGACION, DE BILBAO v. SPANISH-AMERICAN LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY
Term: 1892
Important Dates
Argued: December 1, 1892
Decided: December 12, 1892
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar • George Shiras

COMPANIA BILBAINA DE NAVEGACION, DE BILBAO v. SPANISH-AMERICAN LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 12, 1892. The case was argued before the court on December 1, 1892.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York Southern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Contracts
  • Petitioner: Water transportation, stevedore
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Tenant or lessee
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 146 U.S. 483
  • 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: Samuel Blatchford

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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