HUUS v. NEW YORK AND PORTO RICO STEAMSHIP COMPANY (1901)

HUUS v. NEW YORK AND PORTO RICO STEAMSHIP COMPANY
	Term: 1900
Important Dates
	Argued: January 11, 1901
	Decided: May 27, 1901
Outcome
	Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

HUUS v. NEW YORK AND PORTO RICO STEAMSHIP COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 27, 1901. The case was argued before the court on January 11, 1901.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the New York Southern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Federalism - federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation. cf. state regulation of business. rarely involves union activity. Does not involve constitutional interpretation unless the Court says it does.
Petitioner: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Business, corporation
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 182 U.S. 392
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: Henry Billings Brown

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.