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MASON v. MISSOURI (1900)

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MASON v. MISSOURI
Term: 1900
Important Dates
Argued: October 25, 1900
Decided: December 10, 1900
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

MASON v. MISSOURI is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 10, 1900. The case was argued before the court on October 25, 1900.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1900s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - reapportionment: other than plans governed by the Voting Rights Act
  • Petitioner: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
  • Petitioner state: Missouri
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Missouri
  • Citation: 179 U.S. 328
  • 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: Edward Douglass White

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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