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HEPNER v. UNITED STATES (1909)

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HEPNER v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1908
Important Dates
Argued: March 2, 1909
Decided: April 5, 1909
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
8-1
Majority
William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
David Josiah Brewer

HEPNER v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 5, 1909. The case was argued before the court on March 2, 1909.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question.

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: Civil Rights - Employability of aliens (cf. immigration and naturalization)
  • Petitioner: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 213 U.S. 103
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • 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: John Marshall Harlan

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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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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