LOW WAH SUEY v. BACKUS, COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION (1912)

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LOW WAH SUEY v. BACKUS, COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION
Term: 1911
Important Dates
Argued: April 30, 1912
Decided: June 7, 1912
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

LOW WAH SUEY v. BACKUS, COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 7, 1912. The case was argued before the court on April 30, 1912.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California Northern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1910s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the White Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - Deportation (cf. immigration and naturalization)
  • Petitioner: Husband, or ex-husband
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Immigration and Naturalization Service, or Director of, or District Director of, or Immigration and Naturalization Enforcement
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 225 U.S. 460
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Rufus Day

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.

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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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