MEMPHIS STREET RAILWAY COMPANY v. MOORE, ADMINISTRATOR OF DOUGLAS (1917) - Ballotpedia

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MEMPHIS STREET RAILWAY COMPANY v. MOORE, ADMINISTRATOR OF DOUGLAS

Term: 1916
Important Dates
Argued: January 29, 1917
Decided: March 6, 1917
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

MEMPHIS STREET RAILWAY COMPANY v. MOORE, ADMINISTRATOR OF DOUGLAS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 6, 1917. The case was argued before the court on January 29, 1917.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Tennessee Western U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - Miscellaneous judicial power, especially diversity jurisdiction
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Physically injured person, including wrongful death, who is not an employee
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 243 U.S. 299
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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: John Hessin Clarke

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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