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FERNANDEZ v. PHILLIPS, U.S. MARSHAL

Term: 1924
Important Dates
Argued: May 4, 1925
Decided: May 25, 1925
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • Harlan Fiske Stone • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

FERNANDEZ v. PHILLIPS, U.S. MARSHAL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 25, 1925. The case was argued before the court on May 4, 1925.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New Hampshire U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - subconstitutional fair procedure: fugitive from justice
Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Respondent state: United States
Citation: 268 U.S. 311
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
Who wrote the majority opinion: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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 conservative.

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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