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MATTOON v. MCGREW (1884)

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MATTOON v. MCGREW
Term: 1884
Important Dates
Argued: November 26, 1884
Decided: December 15, 1884
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Burnham Woods

MATTOON v. MCGREW is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 15, 1884. The case was argued before the court on November 26, 1884.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - Sex discrimination (excluding sex discrimination in employment)
  • Petitioner: Unidentifiable
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Unidentifiable
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 112 U.S. 713
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Morrison Waite

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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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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