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MCILVAINE v. COXE'S LESSEE (1805)

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MCILVAINE v. COXE'S LESSEE
Term: 1804
Important Dates
Argued: February 15, 1805
Decided: March 6, 1805
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
4-0
Majority
William Cushing • William Johnson Jr. • William Paterson • Bushrod Washington

MCILVAINE v. COXE'S LESSEE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 6, 1805. The case was argued before the court on February 15, 1805.

In a 4-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New Jersey U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New Jersey.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - immigration and naturalization: loss of citizenship, denaturalization
  • Petitioner: Tenant or lessee
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Alien, person subject to a denaturalization proceeding, or one whose citizenship is revoked
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 6 U.S. 280
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
  • What type of decision was made: Seriatim
  • Who was the chief justice: John Marshall
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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.

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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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