FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ALBUQUERQUE v. ALBRIGHT (1908)

FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ALBUQUERQUE v. ALBRIGHT
	Term: 1907
Important Dates
	Argued: January 22, 1908
	Decided: February 24, 1908
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ALBUQUERQUE v. ALBRIGHT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 24, 1908. The case was argued before the court on January 22, 1908.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New Mexico Territorial Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Federalism - national supremacy: intergovernmental tax immunity
Petitioner: Bank, savings and loan, credit union, investment company
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Respondent state: New Mexico
Citation: 208 U.S. 548
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: 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.