FONG YUE TING v. UNITED STATES. (1893)

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FONG YUE TING v. UNITED STATES.
Term: 1892
Important Dates
Argued: May 10, 1893
Decided: May 15, 1893
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-3
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Henry Billings Brown • Horace Gray • Howell Edmunds Jackson • George Shiras
Dissenting
David Josiah Brewer • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller

FONG YUE TING v. UNITED STATES. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 15, 1893. The case was argued before the court on May 10, 1893.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New York.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - immigration and naturalization: permanent residence
  • Petitioner: Alien, person subject to a denaturalization proceeding, or one whose citizenship is revoked
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 149 U.S. 698
  • 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: Horace Gray

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.

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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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