EILENBECKER v. DISTRICT COURT OF PLYMOUTH COUNTY (1890) - Ballotpedia

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EILENBECKER v. DISTRICT COURT OF PLYMOUTH COUNTY

Term: 1889
Important Dates
Decided: March 3, 1890
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • David Josiah Brewer • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar • Samuel Freeman Miller

EILENBECKER v. DISTRICT COURT OF PLYMOUTH COUNTY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 3, 1890.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Iowa State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Contempt of court or congress
Petitioner: Establishment serving liquor by the glass, or package liquor store
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Court or judicial district
Respondent state: Iowa
Citation: 134 U.S. 31
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: Samuel Freeman Miller

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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