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MATTHEW ADDY COMPANY v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1923
Important Dates
Argued: October 17, 1923
Decided: February 25, 1924
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

MATTHEW ADDY COMPANY v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 25, 1924. The case was argued before the court on October 17, 1923.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Ohio Southern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Retroactivity (of newly announced or newly enacted constitutional or statutory rights)
Petitioner: Coal company or coal mine operator
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 264 U.S. 239
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
Who wrote the majority opinion: James Clark McReynolds

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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