COPPAGE v. STATE OF KANSAS (1915)

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COPPAGE v. STATE OF KANSAS
Term: 1914
Important Dates
Decided: January 25, 1915
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Joseph Rucker Lamar • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes

COPPAGE v. STATE OF KANSAS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 25, 1915.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Kansas State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1910s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the White Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Unions - Labor-management disputes: right to organize
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Kansas
  • Citation: 236 U.S. 1
  • 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: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Mahlon Pitney

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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