MATTER OF GREGORY, PETITIONER (1911)

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MATTER OF GREGORY, PETITIONER
Term: 1910
Important Dates
Argued: December 5, 1910
Decided: January 3, 1911
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
7-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White

MATTER OF GREGORY, PETITIONER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 3, 1911. The case was argued before the court on December 5, 1910.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the District of Columbia State Trial 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: Criminal Procedure - Habeas corpus
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
  • Respondent state: District of Columbia
  • Citation: 219 U.S. 210
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of habeas corpus
  • 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: Charles Evans Hughes

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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