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LOWREY v. TERRITORY OF HAWAII (1910)

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LOWREY v. TERRITORY OF HAWAII
Term: 1909
Important Dates
Argued: December 6, 1909
Decided: January 24, 1910
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
6-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White

LOWREY v. TERRITORY OF HAWAII is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 24, 1910. The case was argued before the court on December 6, 1909.

In a 6-0 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 Hawaii Territorial Supreme Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: First Amendment - Free exercise of religion
  • Petitioner: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Hawaii
  • Citation: 215 U.S. 554
  • 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: Joseph McKenna

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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