MAIL COMPANY v. FLANDERS (1870)

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MAIL COMPANY v. FLANDERS
Term: 1869
Important Dates
Decided: January 24, 1870
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-0
Majority
Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Stephen Johnson Field • Robert Cooper Grier • Samuel Freeman Miller • Noah Haynes Swayne

MAIL COMPANY v. FLANDERS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 24, 1870.

In a 6-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Louisiana U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Louisiana.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1860s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Chase Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Civil procedure
  • Petitioner: State commission, board, committee, or authority
  • Petitioner state: Louisiana
  • Respondent type: Governmental employee or job applicant
  • Respondent state: Louisiana
  • Citation: 79 U.S. 130
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Salmon Portland Chase
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Nathan Clifford

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 unspecifiable.

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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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