LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. BEHLMER (1898)

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LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. BEHLMER
Term: 1897
Important Dates
Decided: March 28, 1898
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
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

LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. BEHLMER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 28, 1898.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the South Carolina U.S. Circuit for the District of South Carolina.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: jurisdiction or authority of federal courts of appeals
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Shipper, including importer and exporter
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 169 U.S. 644
  • 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: Melville Weston Fuller

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.

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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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