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LOUISVILLE WATER COMPANY v. KENTUCKY

Term: 1897
Important Dates
Argued: January 11, 1898
Decided: April 11, 1898
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
8-1
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Horace Gray

LOUISVILLE WATER COMPANY v. KENTUCKY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 11, 1898. The case was argued before the court on January 11, 1898.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Kentucky State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
Petitioner: Business, corporation
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State
Respondent state: Kentucky
Citation: 170 U.S. 127
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: 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 conservative.

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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