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MISSOURI v. ILLINOIS AND THE SANITARY DISTRICT OF CHICAGO (May 28, 1906)

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MISSOURI v. ILLINOIS AND THE SANITARY DISTRICT OF CHICAGO
Term: 1905
Important Dates
Decided: May 28, 1906
Outcome
Stay, petition, or motion granted
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

MISSOURI v. ILLINOIS AND THE SANITARY DISTRICT OF CHICAGO is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 28, 1906.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the petition, stay, or motion.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - Assessment of costs or damages: as part of a court order
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Missouri
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Illinois
  • Citation: 202 U.S. 598
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • 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.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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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