LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY v. MORGAN, POSTMASTER IN NEW YORK CITY (1913)

LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY v. MORGAN, POSTMASTER IN NEW YORK CITY
	Term: 1912
Important Dates
	Argued: December 2, 1912
	Decided: June 10, 1913
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY v. MORGAN, POSTMASTER IN NEW YORK CITY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 10, 1913. The case was argued before the court on December 2, 1912.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York Southern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: First Amendment - First Amendment, miscellaneous (cf. comity: First Amendment)
Petitioner: Postal Service and Post Office, or Postmaster General, or Postmaster
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Respondent state: New York
Citation: 229 U.S. 288
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
Who wrote the majority opinion: Edward Douglass White

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.