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FOSTER v. MASTER AND WARDENS OF THE PORT OF NEW ORLEANS

Term: 1876
Important Dates
Decided: March 13, 1877
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • Stephen Johnson Field • Ward Hunt • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite

FOSTER v. MASTER AND WARDENS OF THE PORT OF NEW ORLEANS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 13, 1877.

In an 8-0 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 1870s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
Petitioner: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Respondent state: Louisiana
Citation: 94 U.S. 246
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: Noah Haynes Swayne

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.

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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