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DOUGLASS v. COUNTY OF PIKE

Term: 1879
Important Dates
Argued: January 5, 1880
Decided: March 29, 1880
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan • Ward Hunt • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite

DOUGLASS v. COUNTY OF PIKE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 29, 1880. The case was argued before the court on January 5, 1880.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1870s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: remand to determine basis of state or federal court decision (cf. judicial administration: state law)
Petitioner: Stockholder, shareholder, or bondholder
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Respondent state: Missouri
Citation: 101 U.S. 677
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: Morrison Waite

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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