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GEORGIA v. TENNESSEE COPPER COMPANY (1907)

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GEORGIA v. TENNESSEE COPPER COMPANY
Term: 1906
Important Dates
Argued: February 25, 1907
Decided: May 13, 1907
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White
Concurring
John Marshall Harlan

GEORGIA v. TENNESSEE COPPER COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 13, 1907. The case was argued before the court on February 25, 1907.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 9-0 ruling.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1900s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Natural resources - environmental protection (cf. national supremacy: natural resources, national supremacy: pollution)
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Georgia
  • Respondent type: Business, corporation
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 206 U.S. 230
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • 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 liberal.

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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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