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HUNTER VERSUS FAIRFAX'S DEVISEE (1796)

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HUNTER VERSUS FAIRFAX'S DEVISEE
Term: 1796
Important Dates
Decided: August 6, 1796
Outcome
No disposition
Vote
6-0
Majority
Samuel Chase • William Cushing • Oliver Ellsworth • James Iredell • William Paterson • James Wilson

HUNTER VERSUS FAIRFAX'S DEVISEE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on August 6, 1796.

The U.S. Supreme Court did not issue a ruling. The case originated from the Virginia State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1790s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Ellsworth Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - Federal Rules of Civil Procedure including Supreme Court Rules, application of the Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure in civil litigation, Circuit Court Rules, and state rules and admiralty rules
  • Petitioner: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Nonresident
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 3 U.S. 305
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Unspecified, other
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: Oliver Ellsworth
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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.

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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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