LOTTERY CASE: CHAMPION v. AMES (1903) - Ballotpedia

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LOTTERY CASE: CHAMPION v. AMES

Term: 1902
Important Dates
Argued: February 27, 1901
Decided: February 23, 1903
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
Henry Billings Brown • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
David Josiah Brewer • Melville Weston Fuller • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras

LOTTERY CASE: CHAMPION v. AMES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 23, 1903. The case was argued before the court on February 27, 1901.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Illinois.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Miscellaneous economic regulation
Petitioner: Arrested person, or pretrial detainee
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Respondent state: United States
Citation: 188 U.S. 321
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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 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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