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MATTER OF CHRISTENSEN ENGINEERING COMPANY (1904)

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MATTER OF CHRISTENSEN ENGINEERING COMPANY
Term: 1903
Important Dates
Decided: May 31, 1904
Outcome
Stay, petition, or motion granted
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

MATTER OF CHRISTENSEN ENGINEERING COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 31, 1904.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the petition, stay, or motion. The case originated from the New York U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New York.

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: Criminal Procedure - Contempt of court or congress
  • Petitioner: Business, corporation
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Court or judicial district
  • Respondent state: United States
  • Citation: 194 U.S. 458
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Mandamus
  • 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: Melville Weston Fuller

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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