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MOYER v. PEABODY (1909)

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MOYER v. PEABODY |
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Term: 1908 |
Important Dates |
Argued: January 5, 1909 |
Decided: January 18, 1909 |
Outcome |
Affirmed (includes modified) |
Vote |
8-0 |
Majority |
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White |
MOYER v. PEABODY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 18, 1909. The case was argued before the court on January 5, 1909.
In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Colorado U.S. Circuit for the District of Colorado.
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About the case
- Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Miscellaneous criminal procedure (cf. due process, prisoners' rights, comity: criminal procedure)
- Petitioner: Arrested person, or pretrial detainee
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
- Respondent state: Colorado
- Citation: 212 U.S. 78
- 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
- United States Supreme Court cases and courts
- Supreme Court of the United States
- History of the Supreme Court
- United States federal courts
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