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FISK v. JEFFERSON POLICE JURY (1885)

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FISK v. JEFFERSON POLICE JURY
Term: 1885
Important Dates
Decided: December 21, 1885
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

FISK v. JEFFERSON POLICE JURY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 21, 1885.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Louisiana State Trial Court.

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: Attorneys - Attorneys' and governmental employees' or officials' fees or compensation or licenses
  • Petitioner: Attorney, or person acting as such;includes bar applicant or law student, or law firm or bar association
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Governmental employee or job applicant
  • Respondent state: Louisiana
  • Citation: 116 U.S. 131
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Samuel Freeman Miller

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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