DOBBINS v. LOS ANGELES (1904)

DOBBINS v. LOS ANGELES
	Term: 1904
Important Dates
	Argued: October 11, 1904
	Decided: November 14, 1904
Outcome
	Reversed
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

DOBBINS v. LOS ANGELES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 14, 1904. The case was argued before the court on October 11, 1904.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California State Trial 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: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Respondent state: California
Citation: 195 U.S. 223
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 Rufus Day

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.