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CONFISCATION CASES (1869)

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CONFISCATION CASES
Term: 1868
Important Dates
Argued: March 1, 1869
Decided: March 22, 1869
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Salmon Portland Chase • Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Stephen Johnson Field • Robert Cooper Grier • Samuel Freeman Miller • Samuel Nelson • Noah Haynes Swayne

CONFISCATION CASES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 22, 1869. The case was argued before the court on March 1, 1869.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Louisiana U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Louisiana.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1860s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Chase Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - Standing to sue: personal injury
  • Petitioner: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
  • Petitioner state: Louisiana
  • Respondent type: Water transportation, stevedore
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 74 U.S. 454
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Salmon Portland Chase
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Nathan Clifford

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.

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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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