MERCHANTS HEAT AND LIGHT COMPANY v. J. B. CLOW & SONS (1907)

MERCHANTS HEAT AND LIGHT COMPANY v. J. B. CLOW & SONS
	Term: 1906
Important Dates
	Argued: January 15, 1907
	Decided: January 28, 1907
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	6-3
Majority
	Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Rufus Wheeler Peckham

MERCHANTS HEAT AND LIGHT COMPANY v. J. B. CLOW & SONS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 28, 1907. The case was argued before the court on January 15, 1907.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Illinois.

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About the case

Subject matter: Due Process - due process: hearing or notice (other than as pertains to government employees or prisoners' rights)
Petitioner: Business, corporation
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: foreign (non-American) nongovernmental entity
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 204 U.S. 286
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: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.