MELLON COMPANY v. MCCAFFERTY, COUNTY TREASURER (1915)

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MELLON COMPANY v. MCCAFFERTY, COUNTY TREASURER
Term: 1915
Important Dates
Decided: November 29, 1915
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
8-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

MELLON COMPANY v. MCCAFFERTY, COUNTY TREASURER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 29, 1915.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Oklahoma State Trial Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: adequate non-federal grounds for decision
  • Petitioner: State or local governmental taxpayer, or executor of the estate of
  • Petitioner state: Oklahoma
  • Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
  • Respondent state: Oklahoma
  • Citation: 239 U.S. 134
  • 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: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Edward Douglass White

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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