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MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. STATE OF NEBRASKA

Term: 1909
Important Dates
Argued: March 7, 1910
Decided: April 4, 1910
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-2
Majority
William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Horace Harmon Lurton • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna

MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. STATE OF NEBRASKA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 4, 1910. The case was argued before the court on March 7, 1910.

In a 5-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Nebraska State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Due Process - Due process: takings clause, or other non-constitutional governmental taking of property
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State
Respondent state: Nebraska
Citation: 217 U.S. 196
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 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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