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LABETTE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS & OTHERS v. UNITED STATES EX REL. MOULTON

Term: 1884
Important Dates
Decided: November 17, 1884
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

LABETTE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS & OTHERS v. UNITED STATES EX REL. MOULTON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 17, 1884.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Kansas U.S. Circuit for the District of Kansas.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: jurisdiction or authority of federal courts of appeals
Petitioner: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Petitioner state: Kansas
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 112 U.S. 217
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: Morrison Waite
Who wrote the majority opinion: Stanley Matthews

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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