ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. SHEEGOG (1909) - Ballotpedia

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ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. SHEEGOG

Term: 1909
Important Dates
Argued: December 12, 1909
Decided: December 20, 1909
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-2
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Melville Weston Fuller • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
William Rufus Day • John Marshall Harlan

ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. SHEEGOG is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 20, 1909. The case was argued before the court on December 12, 1909.

In a 5-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Kentucky State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - comity primarily removal cases, civil procedure (cf. comity, criminal and First Amendment); deference to foreign judicial tribunals
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 215 U.S. 308
How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
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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