JONES v. EAST TENNESSEE, VIRGINIA AND GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY (1888) - Ballotpedia

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JONES v. EAST TENNESSEE, VIRGINIA AND GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY

Term: 1888
Important Dates
Argued: November 2, 1888
Decided: November 12, 1888
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar • Samuel Freeman Miller

JONES v. EAST TENNESSEE, VIRGINIA AND GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 12, 1888. The case was argued before the court on November 2, 1888.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Tennessee U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Tennessee.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
Petitioner: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Railroad
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 128 U.S. 443
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: 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.

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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