FORBES LITHOGRAPH MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. WORTHINGTON (1889) - Ballotpedia

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FORBES LITHOGRAPH MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. WORTHINGTON

Term: 1889
Important Dates
Decided: December 23, 1889
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar • Samuel Freeman Miller

FORBES LITHOGRAPH MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. WORTHINGTON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 23, 1889.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Massachusetts U.S. Circuit for the District of Massachusetts.

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About the case

Subject matter: Federal Taxation - Federal taxation of gifts, personal, business, or professional expenses
Petitioner: Shipper, including importer and exporter
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Respondent state: United States
Citation: 132 U.S. 655
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: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: Melville Weston Fuller

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.

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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