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LEVY v. DANGEL (1881)

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LEVY v. DANGEL
Term: 1881
Important Dates
Decided: November 14, 1881
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan • Ward Hunt • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

LEVY v. DANGEL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 14, 1881.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court.

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.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: Supreme Court jurisdiction or authority on appeal or writ of error, from highest state court
  • Petitioner: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Debtor
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 154 U.S. 671
  • 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: Morrison Waite

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.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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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