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In re CLAASEN (1891)

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in re CLAASEN
Term: 1890
Important Dates
Argued: April 30, 1891
Decided: May 11, 1891
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

in re CLAASEN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 11, 1891. The case was argued before the court on April 30, 1891.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the New York Southern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Judge
  • Respondent state: United States
  • Citation: 140 U.S. 200
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Mandamus
  • 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: Samuel Blatchford

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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