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In re NEAGLE, PETITIONER (1890)

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in re NEAGLE, PETITIONER
Term: 1889
Important Dates
Decided: April 14, 1890
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-2
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • David Josiah Brewer • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Samuel Freeman Miller
Dissenting
Melville Weston Fuller • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

in re NEAGLE, PETITIONER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 14, 1890.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of California.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federalism - federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction
  • Petitioner: Governmental employee or job applicant
  • Petitioner state: California
  • Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
  • Respondent state: United States
  • Citation: 135 U.S. 1
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • 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 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 liberal.

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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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