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Ex parte ROWLAND (1882)

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ex parte ROWLAND
Term: 1881
Important Dates
Argued: January 10, 1882
Decided: January 23, 1882
Outcome
Stay, petition, or motion granted
Vote
8-0
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

ex parte ROWLAND is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 23, 1882. The case was argued before the court on January 10, 1882.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the petition, stay, or motion. The case originated from the Alabama U.S. Circuit Court for (all) District(s) of Alabama.

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: Criminal Procedure - Contempt of court or congress
  • Petitioner: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
  • Petitioner state: Alabama
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 104 U.S. 604
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of habeas corpus
  • 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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