LAKE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS v. DUDLEY (1899)

LAKE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS v. DUDLEY
	Term: 1898
Important Dates
	Argued: December 14, 1898
	Decided: February 20, 1899
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

LAKE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS v. DUDLEY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 20, 1899. The case was argued before the court on December 14, 1898.

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 Colorado U.S. Circuit for the District of Colorado.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - Standing to sue: adversary parties
Petitioner: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Petitioner state: Colorado
Respondent type: Stockholder, shareholder, or bondholder
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 173 U.S. 243
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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.