EMSHEIMER v. NEW ORLEANS (1902) - Ballotpedia

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EMSHEIMER v. NEW ORLEANS

Term: 1901
Important Dates
Argued: March 19, 1902
Decided: May 19, 1902
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
8-0
Judgment of the court
Melville Weston Fuller
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

EMSHEIMER v. NEW ORLEANS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 19, 1902. The case was argued before the court on March 19, 1902.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Louisiana U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Louisiana.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: jurisdiction or authority of federal courts of appeals
Petitioner: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Respondent state: Louisiana
Citation: 186 U.S. 33
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
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: Melville Weston Fuller

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.

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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