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JAMES v. APPEL (1904)
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| JAMES v. APPEL |
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| Term: 1903 |
| Important Dates |
| Argued: December 17, 1903 |
| Decided: January 4, 1904 |
| Outcome |
| Affirmed (includes modified) |
| 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 |
JAMES v. APPEL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 4, 1904. The case was argued before the court on December 17, 1903.
In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Arizona Territorial Trial Court.
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About the case
- Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: untimely filing
- Petitioner: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: Unidentifiable
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 192 U.S. 129
- 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: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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