KIRWAN v. MURPHY (1903)

KIRWAN v. MURPHY
	Term: 1902
Important Dates
	Argued: January 30, 1903
	Decided: April 6, 1903
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
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

KIRWAN v. MURPHY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 6, 1903. The case was argued before the court on January 30, 1903.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Minnesota U.S. Circuit for the District of Minnesota.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - Judicial review of administrative agency's or administrative official's actions and procedures
Petitioner: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Petitioner state: Minnesota
Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 189 U.S. 35
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: 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.