MERRIMACK RIVER SAVINGS BANK v. CITY OF CLAY CENTER (1911) - Ballotpedia

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MERRIMACK RIVER SAVINGS BANK v. CITY OF CLAY CENTER

Term: 1910
Important Dates
Argued: January 26, 1911
Decided: February 20, 1911
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

MERRIMACK RIVER SAVINGS BANK v. CITY OF CLAY CENTER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 20, 1911. The case was argued before the court on January 26, 1911.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Kansas U.S. Circuit for the District of Kansas.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Contempt of court or congress
Petitioner: Creditor, including institution appearing as such; e.g., a finance company
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Respondent state: Kansas
Citation: 219 U.S. 527
How the court took jurisdiction: Unspecified, other
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: Horace Harmon Lurton

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.

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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