DONNELL v. HERRING-HALL-MARVIN SAFE COMPANY (1908)

DONNELL v. HERRING-HALL-MARVIN SAFE COMPANY
	Term: 1907
Important Dates
	Argued: January 14, 1908
	Decided: February 3, 1908
Outcome
	Reversed
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

DONNELL v. HERRING-HALL-MARVIN SAFE COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 3, 1908. The case was argued before the court on January 14, 1908.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Illinois.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - comity primarily removal cases, civil procedure (cf. comity, criminal and First Amendment); deference to foreign judicial tribunals
Petitioner: Management, executive officer, or director, of business entity
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Business, corporation
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 208 U.S. 267
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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: 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 liberal.