MOFFITT v. KELLY, TREASURER OF ALAMEDA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA (1910) - Ballotpedia

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MOFFITT v. KELLY, TREASURER OF ALAMEDA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA

Term: 1910
Important Dates
Argued: November 4, 1910
Decided: November 28, 1910
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White

MOFFITT v. KELLY, TREASURER OF ALAMEDA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 28, 1910. The case was argued before the court on November 4, 1910.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - Sex discrimination (excluding sex discrimination in employment)
Petitioner: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Respondent state: California
Citation: 218 U.S. 400
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: Edward Douglass White

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

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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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