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EYSTER v. CENTENNIAL BOARD OF FINANCE

Term: 1876
Important Dates
Argued: March 20, 1877
Decided: April 9, 1877
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-1
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • Stephen Johnson Field • Ward Hunt • Samuel Freeman Miller • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite
Dissenting
William Strong

EYSTER v. CENTENNIAL BOARD OF FINANCE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 9, 1877. The case was argued before the court on March 20, 1877.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Pennsylvania U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Pennsylvania.

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: Federal Taxation - Priority of federal fiscal claims: over those of the states or private entities
Petitioner: Unidentifiable
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Business, corporation
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 94 U.S. 500
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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 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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