JAYBIRD MINING COMPANY v. WEIR, COUNTY TREASURE (1926) - Ballotpedia

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JAYBIRD MINING COMPANY v. WEIR, COUNTY TREASURE

Term: 1925
Important Dates
Argued: April 29, 1926
Decided: June 7, 1926
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-2
Majority
Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Edward Terry Sanford • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter
Dissenting
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • James Clark McReynolds

JAYBIRD MINING COMPANY v. WEIR, COUNTY TREASURE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 7, 1926. The case was argued before the court on April 29, 1926.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Oklahoma State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Federalism - national supremacy: intergovernmental tax immunity
Petitioner: Mining company or miner, excluding coal, oil, or pipeline company
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Respondent state: Oklahoma
Citation: 271 U.S. 609
How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
Who wrote the majority opinion: Pierce Butler

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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