HALLOWELL v. COMMONS, ACTING INDIAN AGENT (1916) - Ballotpedia

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HALLOWELL v. COMMONS, ACTING INDIAN AGENT

Term: 1915
Important Dates
Decided: January 10, 1916
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

HALLOWELL v. COMMONS, ACTING INDIAN AGENT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 10, 1916.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1910s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the White Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - Indians (other than pertains to state jurisdiction over)
Petitioner: Heir, or beneficiary, or person so claiming to be
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Respondent state: Nebraska
Citation: 239 U.S. 506
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
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.

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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