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MEMPHIS GAS LIGHT COMPANY v. TAXING DISTRICT OF SHELBY COUNTY (1883)

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MEMPHIS GAS LIGHT COMPANY v. TAXING DISTRICT OF SHELBY COUNTY
Term: 1883
Important Dates
Decided: November 26, 1883
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

MEMPHIS GAS LIGHT COMPANY v. TAXING DISTRICT OF SHELBY COUNTY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 26, 1883.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
  • Petitioner: Electric or hydroelectric power utility, power cooperative, or gas and electric company
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
  • Respondent state: Tennessee
  • Citation: 109 U.S. 398
  • 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: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Samuel Freeman Miller

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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