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FRANCIS v. UNITED STATES (1903)
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| FRANCIS v. UNITED STATES |
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| Term: 1902 |
| Important Dates |
| Argued: December 15, 1902 |
| Decided: February 23, 1903 |
| Outcome |
| Reversed and remanded |
| Vote |
| 8-1 |
| Majority |
| David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White |
| Dissenting |
| John Marshall Harlan |
FRANCIS v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 23, 1903. The case was argued before the court on December 15, 1902.
In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Ohio Southern U.S. District Court.
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About the case
- Subject matter: Economic Activity - Miscellaneous economic regulation
- Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: United States
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 188 U.S. 375
- How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
- 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: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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