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Ex parte, IN THE MATTER OF DAVID A. SECOMBE (1857)

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ex parte, IN THE MATTER OF DAVID A. SECOMBE
Term: 1856
Important Dates
Decided: January 12, 1857
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
John Archibald Campbell • John Catron • Benjamin Robbins Curtis • Peter Vivian Daniel • Robert Cooper Grier • John McLean • Samuel Nelson • Roger Brooke Taney • James Moore Wayne

ex parte, IN THE MATTER OF DAVID A. SECOMBE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 12, 1857.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Minnesota Territorial Supreme Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1850s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taney Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Civil procedure
  • Petitioner: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
  • Petitioner state: Minnesota
  • Respondent type: Judge
  • Respondent state: Minnesota
  • Citation: 60 U.S. 9
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Mandamus
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Roger Brooke Taney
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Roger Brooke Taney

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 unspecifiable.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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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