JOHN NORRIS, PLAINTIFF, v. EDWIN B. CROCKER AND ELISHA EGBERT (1852) - Ballotpedia

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JOHN NORRIS, PLAINTIFF, v. EDWIN B. CROCKER AND ELISHA EGBERT

Term: 1851
Important Dates
Argued: May 18, 1852
Decided: May 27, 1852
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
9-0
Majority
John Catron • Benjamin Robbins Curtis • Peter Vivian Daniel • Robert Cooper Grier • John McKinley • John McLean • Samuel Nelson • Roger Brooke Taney • James Moore Wayne

JOHN NORRIS, PLAINTIFF, v. EDWIN B. CROCKER AND ELISHA EGBERT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 27, 1852. The case was argued before the court on May 18, 1852.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Indiana U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Indiana.

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About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - Slavery or indenture
Petitioner: Slave-owner
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Unidentifiable
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 54 U.S. 429
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Roger Brooke Taney
Who wrote the majority opinion: John Catron

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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