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MITCHELL v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO (1901)

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MITCHELL v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO
Term: 1900
Important Dates
Argued: October 11, 1900
Decided: March 5, 1901
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah BrewerHenry Billings BrownMelville Weston FullerHorace GrayJohn Marshall HarlanJoseph McKennaRufus Wheeler PeckhamGeorge ShirasEdward Douglass White

MITCHELL v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 5, 1901. The case was argued before the court on October 11, 1900.

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

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federalism - federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction
  • Petitioner: Person who guarantees another's obligations
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Bank, savings and loan, credit union, investment company
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 180 U.S. 471
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • 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: John Marshall Harlan

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.

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