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COUGHLIN v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (1882)

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COUGHLIN v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Term: 1882
Important Dates
Argued: October 11, 1882
Decided: October 30, 1882
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

COUGHLIN v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 30, 1882. The case was argued before the court on October 11, 1882.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: review of non-final order
  • Petitioner: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
  • Respondent state: District of Columbia
  • Citation: 106 U.S. 7
  • 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: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Horace Gray

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.

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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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