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MCALLISTER v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1890
Important Dates
Argued: March 24, 1891
Decided: May 25, 1891
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • David Josiah Brewer • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
Dissenting
Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray

MCALLISTER v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 25, 1891. The case was argued before the court on March 24, 1891.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Claims, Court of Federal Claims.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Miscellaneous - executive authority vis-a-vis congress or the states
Petitioner: Judge
Petitioner state: Alaska
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 141 U.S. 174
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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: John Marshall Harlan

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.

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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