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HUTCHINS, TRUSTEE, v. WILLIAM W. BIERCE, LIMITED

Term: 1908
Important Dates
Argued: November 9, 1908
Decided: December 14, 1908
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

HUTCHINS, TRUSTEE, v. WILLIAM W. BIERCE, LIMITED is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 14, 1908. The case was argued before the court on November 9, 1908.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Hawaii Territorial Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: review of non-final order
Petitioner: Buyer, purchaser
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Seller or vendor
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 211 U.S. 429
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: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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