METROPOLITAN RAILROAD COMPANY v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (1904)

METROPOLITAN RAILROAD COMPANY v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
	Term: 1904
Important Dates
	Argued: October 24, 1904
	Decided: November 28, 1904
Outcome
	Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

METROPOLITAN RAILROAD COMPANY v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 28, 1904. The case was argued before the court on October 24, 1904.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - Federal Rules of Civil Procedure including Supreme Court Rules, application of the Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure in civil litigation, Circuit Court Rules, and state rules and admiralty rules
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State
Respondent state: District of Columbia
Citation: 195 U.S. 322
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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: 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 liberal.