In re TAMPA SUBURBAN RAILROAD COMPANY (1897)

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in re TAMPA SUBURBAN RAILROAD COMPANY
Term: 1897
Important Dates
Argued: November 29, 1897
Decided: December 20, 1897
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
8-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

in re TAMPA SUBURBAN RAILROAD COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 20, 1897. The case was argued before the court on November 29, 1897.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - Supreme Court's certiorari, writ of error, or appeals jurisdiction
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Judge
  • Respondent state: United States
  • Citation: 168 U.S. 583
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • 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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