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IASIGI v. VAN DE CARR (1897)

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IASIGI v. VAN DE CARR |
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Term: 1896 |
Important Dates |
Argued: March 22, 1897 |
Decided: April 5, 1897 |
Outcome |
Affirmed (includes modified) |
Vote |
9-0 |
Majority |
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White |
IASIGI v. VAN DE CARR is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 5, 1897. The case was argued before the court on March 22, 1897.
In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York Southern U.S. District Court.
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About the case
- Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - subconstitutional fair procedure: fugitive from justice
- Petitioner: Arrested person, or pretrial detainee
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: Unidentifiable
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 166 U.S. 391
- 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: Melville Weston Fuller
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
- United States Supreme Court cases and courts
- Supreme Court of the United States
- History of the Supreme Court
- United States federal courts
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