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DEL COL VERSUS ARNOLD (1796)

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DEL COL VERSUS ARNOLD
Term: 1796
Important Dates
Argued: February 29, 1796
Decided: August 11, 1796
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-0
Majority
William Cushing • Oliver Ellsworth • William Paterson • James Wilson
Concurring
Samuel Chase • James Iredell

DEL COL VERSUS ARNOLD is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on August 11, 1796. The case was argued before the court on February 29, 1796.

In a 6-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the South Carolina U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1790s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Ellsworth Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Sufficiency of evidence: typically in the context of a jury's determination of compensation for injury or death
  • Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 3 U.S. 333
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Oliver Ellsworth
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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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