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FRIEDENSTEIN v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1887
Important Dates
Argued: February 10, 1888
Decided: March 19, 1888
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Horace Gray • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite
Dissenting
Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan

FRIEDENSTEIN v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 19, 1888. The case was argued before the court on February 10, 1888.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York Southern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Due Process - Due process: takings clause, or other non-constitutional governmental taking of property
Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 125 U.S. 224
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: Samuel Blatchford

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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