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DOWNES v. BIDWELL (1901)
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| DOWNES v. BIDWELL |
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| Term: 1900 |
| Important Dates |
| Argued: January 8, 1901 |
| Decided: May 27, 1901 |
| Outcome |
| Affirmed (includes modified) |
| Vote |
| 5-4 |
| Judgment of the court |
| Henry Billings Brown |
| Concurring |
| Horace Gray • Joseph McKenna • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White |
| Dissenting |
| David Josiah Brewer • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham |
DOWNES v. BIDWELL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 27, 1901. The case was argued before the court on January 8, 1901.
In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New York.
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About the case
- Subject matter: Miscellaneous - executive authority vis-a-vis congress or the states
- Petitioner: Shipper, including importer and exporter
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
- Respondent state: New York
- Citation: 182 U.S. 244
- How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
- What type of decision was made: Judgment of the Court (orally argued)
- Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
- Who wrote the majority opinion: Henry Billings Brown
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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