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HUDSON v. PARKER (1895)

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HUDSON v. PARKER
Term: 1894
Important Dates
Decided: February 4, 1895
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
5-2
Majority
Stephen Johnson FieldMelville Weston FullerHorace GrayJohn Marshall HarlanGeorge Shiras
Dissenting
David Josiah BrewerHenry Billings Brown

HUDSON v. PARKER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 4, 1895.

In a 5-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Arkansas Western U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: extraordinary relief (e.g., mandamus, injunction)
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Judge
  • Respondent state: United States
  • Citation: 156 U.S. 277
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Mandamus
  • 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: Horace Gray

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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