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MAHON v. JUSTICE (1888)

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MAHON v. JUSTICE
Term: 1887
Important Dates
Argued: April 23, 1888
Decided: May 14, 1888
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-2
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller
Dissenting
Joseph Bradley • John Marshall Harlan

MAHON v. JUSTICE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 14, 1888. The case was argued before the court on April 23, 1888.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Kentucky U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Kentucky.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - subconstitutional fair procedure: fugitive from justice
  • Petitioner: Arrested person, or pretrial detainee
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State commission, board, committee, or authority
  • Respondent state: Kentucky
  • Citation: 127 U.S. 700
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Stephen Johnson Field

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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