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In re CHILES (1875)

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in re CHILES
Term: 1874
Important Dates
Argued: March 1, 1875
Decided: March 29, 1875
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite
Dissenting
Stephen Johnson Field • Ward Hunt

in re CHILES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 29, 1875. The case was argued before the court on March 1, 1875.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1870s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Contempt of court or congress
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Texas
  • Respondent type: Defendant
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 89 U.S. 157
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Unspecified, other
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Samuel Freeman Miller

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.

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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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