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Ex parte NORTON (1883)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
ex parte NORTON
Term: 1882
Important Dates
Decided: April 2, 1883
Outcome
Stay, petition, or motion granted
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

ex parte NORTON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 2, 1883.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the petition, stay, or motion. The case originated from the Louisiana U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Louisiana.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: review of non-final order
  • Petitioner: Bankrupt person or business, or business in reorganization
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Court or judicial district
  • Respondent state: United States
  • Citation: 108 U.S. 237
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Mandamus
  • 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.

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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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