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DE LA RAMA v. DE LA RAMA (1916)

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DE LA RAMA v. DE LA RAMA
Term: 1915
Important Dates
Decided: May 1, 1916
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-0
Majority
Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

DE LA RAMA v. DE LA RAMA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 1, 1916.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Philippines Territorial Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1910s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the White Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - Sex discrimination (excluding sex discrimination in employment)
  • Petitioner: Husband, or ex-husband
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Wife, or ex-wife
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 241 U.S. 154
  • 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: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.

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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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