COVINGTON v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF COVINGTON (1905)

COVINGTON v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF COVINGTON
	Term: 1904
Important Dates
	Argued: January 5, 1905
	Decided: April 17, 1905
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
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

COVINGTON v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF COVINGTON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 17, 1905. The case was argued before the court on January 5, 1905.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Kentucky U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Kentucky.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: collateral estoppel or res judicata
Petitioner: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Petitioner state: Kentucky
Respondent type: Bank, savings and loan, credit union, investment company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 198 U.S. 100
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: William Rufus Day

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.