HAWAII v. MANKICHI (1903)

HAWAII v. MANKICHI
	Term: 1902
Important Dates
	Argued: March 4, 1903
	Decided: June 1, 1903
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	7-2
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Rufus Wheeler Peckham
Concurring
	Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan

HAWAII v. MANKICHI is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 1, 1903. The case was argued before the court on March 4, 1903.

In a 7-2 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 Hawaii U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Federalism - federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation. cf. state regulation of business. rarely involves union activity. Does not involve constitutional interpretation unless the Court says it does.
Petitioner: State
Petitioner state: Hawaii
Respondent type: Person convicted of crime
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 190 U.S. 197
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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: Henry Billings Brown

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.