DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. MCELLIGOTT (1886)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. MCELLIGOTT
	Term: 1885
Important Dates
	Argued: March 4, 1886
	Decided: March 29, 1886
Outcome
	Reversed
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. MCELLIGOTT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 29, 1886. The case was argued before the court on March 4, 1886.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court.

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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: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: employer. If employer's relations with employees are governed by the nature of the employer's business (e.g., railroad, boat), rather than labor law generally, the more specific designation is used in place of Employer.
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 117 U.S. 621
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: Morrison Waite
Who wrote the majority opinion: John Marshall Harlan

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.