FIDELITY TRUST AND SAFETY VAULT COMPANY v. LOUISVILLE. (1899) - Ballotpedia

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FIDELITY TRUST AND SAFETY VAULT COMPANY v. LOUISVILLE.

Term: 1898
Important Dates
Argued: March 2, 1899
Decided: May 15, 1899
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

FIDELITY TRUST AND SAFETY VAULT COMPANY v. LOUISVILLE. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 15, 1899. The case was argued before the court on March 2, 1899.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Kentucky U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Kentucky.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
Petitioner: Business, corporation
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Respondent state: Kentucky
Citation: 174 U.S. 429
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: Rufus Wheeler Peckham

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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