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In re COOPER, PETITIONER (1892)
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| in re COOPER, PETITIONER |
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| Term: 1891 |
| Important Dates |
| Argued: November 9, 1891 |
| Decided: February 29, 1892 |
| Outcome |
| Petition denied or appeal dismissed |
| Vote |
| 7-1 |
| Majority |
| Samuel Blatchford • David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar |
| Dissenting |
| Stephen Johnson Field |
in re COOPER, PETITIONER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 29, 1892. The case was argued before the court on November 9, 1891.
In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Alaska 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.
About the case
- Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: jurisdiction or authority of federal district courts or territorial courts
- Petitioner: Water transportation, stevedore
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: Court or judicial district
- Respondent state: United States
- Citation: 143 U.S. 472
- 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 liberal.
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