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KUHN v. FAIRMONT COAL COMPANY

Term: 1909
Important Dates
Argued: December 3, 1909
Decided: January 3, 1910
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
4-3
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan
Dissenting
Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White

KUHN v. FAIRMONT COAL COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 3, 1910. The case was argued before the court on December 3, 1909.

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

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About the case

Subject matter: Federalism - federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction
Petitioner: Seller or vendor
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Coal company or coal mine operator
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 215 U.S. 349
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
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: John Marshall Harlan

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.

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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