FITTS v. MCGHEE (1899)

FITTS v. MCGHEE
	Term: 1898
Important Dates
	Argued: October 26, 1898
	Decided: January 3, 1899
Outcome
	Reversed
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

FITTS v. MCGHEE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 3, 1899. The case was argued before the court on October 26, 1898.

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

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: Supreme Court jurisdiction or authority on appeal or writ of error, from federal district courts or courts of appeals (cf. 753)
Petitioner: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Petitioner state: Alabama
Respondent type: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 172 U.S. 516
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: John Marshall Harlan

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.