MCGOWAN v. PARISH (1915)

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MCGOWAN v. PARISH
Term: 1914
Important Dates
Argued: January 25, 1915
Decided: April 12, 1915
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

MCGOWAN v. PARISH is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 12, 1915. The case was argued before the court on January 25, 1915.

In a 9-0 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.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Attorneys - Attorneys' and governmental employees' or officials' fees or compensation or licenses
  • Petitioner: Attorney, or person acting as such;includes bar applicant or law student, or law firm or bar association
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 237 U.S. 285
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Mahlon Pitney

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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