MCCANDLESS v. PRATT, LAND COMMISSIONER OF HAWAII (1908)

MCCANDLESS v. PRATT, LAND COMMISSIONER OF HAWAII
	Term: 1908
Important Dates
	Argued: November 6, 1908
	Decided: December 21, 1908
Outcome
	Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

MCCANDLESS v. PRATT, LAND COMMISSIONER OF HAWAII is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 21, 1908. The case was argued before the court on November 6, 1908.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Hawaii Territorial Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: First Amendment - First Amendment, miscellaneous (cf. comity: First Amendment)
Petitioner: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Respondent state: Hawaii
Citation: 211 U.S. 437
How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
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: Joseph McKenna

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.