DAVISON BROS. MARBLE COMPANY v. UNITED STATES ON THE RELATION OF GIBSON (1909) - Ballotpedia

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DAVISON BROS. MARBLE COMPANY v. UNITED STATES ON THE RELATION OF GIBSON

Term: 1908
Important Dates
Argued: January 15, 1909
Decided: February 23, 1909
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-1
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Joseph McKenna

DAVISON BROS. MARBLE COMPANY v. UNITED STATES ON THE RELATION OF GIBSON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 23, 1909. The case was argued before the court on January 15, 1909.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of California.

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About the case

Subject matter: Private Action - Contracts
Petitioner: Government contractor
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 213 U.S. 10
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: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: William Henry Moody

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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