MOBILE, JACKSON AND KANSAS CITY RAILROAD COMPANY v. STATE OF MISSISSIPPI (1908) - Ballotpedia

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MOBILE, JACKSON AND KANSAS CITY RAILROAD COMPANY v. STATE OF MISSISSIPPI

Term: 1907
Important Dates
Argued: April 29, 1908
Decided: May 18, 1908
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

MOBILE, JACKSON AND KANSAS CITY RAILROAD COMPANY v. STATE OF MISSISSIPPI is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 18, 1908. The case was argued before the court on April 29, 1908.

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

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - Supreme Court's certiorari, writ of error, or appeals jurisdiction
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State commission, board, committee, or authority
Respondent state: Mississippi
Citation: 210 U.S. 187
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: Joseph McKenna

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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