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MATTER OF HEFF (1905)
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| MATTER OF HEFF |
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| Term: 1904 |
| Important Dates |
| Argued: January 9, 1905 |
| Decided: April 10, 1905 |
| Outcome |
| Stay, petition, or motion granted |
| Vote |
| 8-1 |
| Majority |
| David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White |
| Dissenting |
| John Marshall Harlan |
MATTER OF HEFF is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 10, 1905. The case was argued before the court on January 9, 1905.
In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the petition, stay, or motion. The case originated from the Kansas U.S. District 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.
About the case
- Subject matter: Civil Rights - Indians (other than pertains to state jurisdiction over)
- Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: United States
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 197 U.S. 488
- 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: Melville Weston Fuller
- Who wrote the majority opinion: David Josiah Brewer
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 liberal.
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