In re COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, PETITIONER (1905)

in re COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, PETITIONER
	Term: 1904
Important Dates
	Argued: February 27, 1905
	Decided: April 10, 1905
Outcome
	Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

in re COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, PETITIONER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 10, 1905. The case was argued before the court on February 27, 1905.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - Federal Rules of Civil Procedure including Supreme Court Rules, application of the Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure in civil litigation, Circuit Court Rules, and state rules and admiralty rules
Petitioner: State
Petitioner state: Massachusetts
Respondent type: Judge
Respondent state: District of Columbia
Citation: 197 U.S. 482
How the court took jurisdiction: Prohibition
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.