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In re KEY (1903)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
in re KEY
Term: 1902
Important Dates
Argued: April 6, 1903
Decided: April 27, 1903
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 KEY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 27, 1903. The case was argued before the court on April 6, 1903.

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.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1900s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: extraordinary relief (e.g., mandamus, injunction)
  • Petitioner: Unidentifiable
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Court or judicial district
  • Respondent state: United States
  • Citation: 189 U.S. 84
  • 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: 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.

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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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