MILLER v. WILSON, SHERIFF OF RIVERSIDE COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNI (1915) - Ballotpedia

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MILLER v. WILSON, SHERIFF OF RIVERSIDE COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNI

Term: 1914
Important Dates
Argued: January 12, 1915
Decided: February 23, 1915
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

MILLER v. WILSON, SHERIFF OF RIVERSIDE COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNI is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 23, 1915. The case was argued before the court on January 12, 1915.

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

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About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - Sex discrimination in employment (cf. sex discrimination)
Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Respondent state: California
Citation: 236 U.S. 373
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: Edward Douglass White
Who wrote the majority opinion: Charles Evans Hughes

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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