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Ex parte ROBINSON (1874)

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ex parte ROBINSON
Term: 1873
Important Dates
Decided: May 4, 1874
Outcome
Stay, petition, or motion granted
Vote
8-1
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Stephen Johnson Field • Ward Hunt • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite
Dissenting
Samuel Freeman Miller

ex parte ROBINSON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 4, 1874.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the petition, stay, or motion. The case originated from the Arkansas Western U.S. District Court.

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.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Attorneys - Admission to a state or federal bar, disbarment, and attorney discipline (cf. loyalty oath: bar applicants)
  • Petitioner: Attorney, or person acting as such;includes bar applicant or law student, or law firm or bar association
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Judge
  • Respondent state: United States
  • Citation: 86 U.S. 505
  • 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: Stephen Johnson Field

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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