DETROIT, FORT WAYNE AND BELLE ISSLE RAILWAY v. OSBORN (1903)

DETROIT, FORT WAYNE AND BELLE ISSLE RAILWAY v. OSBORN
	Term: 1902
Important Dates
	Argued: January 15, 1903
	Decided: April 6, 1903
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

DETROIT, FORT WAYNE AND BELLE ISSLE RAILWAY v. OSBORN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 6, 1903. The case was argued before the court on January 15, 1903.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Michigan State Supreme Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - State or local government regulation, especially of business (cf. federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction, federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation)
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Respondent state: Michigan
Citation: 189 U.S. 383
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: Joseph McKenna

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.