HOME SAVINGS BANK v. CITY OF DES MOINES (1907)

HOME SAVINGS BANK v. CITY OF DES MOINES
	Term: 1906
Important Dates
	Argued: November 2, 1906
	Decided: April 22, 1907
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	5-3
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham

HOME SAVINGS BANK v. CITY OF DES MOINES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 22, 1907. The case was argued before the court on November 2, 1906.

In a 5-3 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 Iowa State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Federalism - national supremacy: intergovernmental tax immunity
Petitioner: Bank, savings and loan, credit union, investment company
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Respondent state: Iowa
Citation: 205 U.S. 503
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: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: William Henry Moody

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.