LONDONER v. CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER (1908)

LONDONER v. CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER
	Term: 1907
Important Dates
	Argued: March 6, 1908
	Decided: June 1, 1908
Outcome
	Reversed
Vote
	7-2
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	Melville Weston Fuller • Oliver Wendell Holmes

LONDONER v. CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 1, 1908. The case was argued before the court on March 6, 1908.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Colorado State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - State or local government regulation, especially of business (cf. federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction, federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation)
Petitioner: State or local governmental taxpayer, or executor of the estate of
Petitioner state: Colorado
Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Respondent state: Colorado
Citation: 210 U.S. 373
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: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: William Henry Moody

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.