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MURPHY v. RAMSEY & OTHERS (1885)
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| MURPHY v. RAMSEY & OTHERS |
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| Term: 1884 |
| Important Dates |
| Argued: January 28, 1885 |
| Decided: March 23, 1885 |
| Outcome |
| Affirmed and reversed (or vacated) in part |
| Vote |
| 9-0 |
| Majority |
| Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods |
MURPHY v. RAMSEY & OTHERS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 23, 1885. The case was argued before the court on January 28, 1885.
In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed and reversed (or vacated) in part the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Utah Territorial Supreme Court.
For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.
About the case
- Subject matter: Civil Rights - Voting
- Petitioner: voter, prospective voter, elector, or a nonelective official seeking reapportionment or redistricting of legislative districts (POL)
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: State commission, board, committee, or authority
- Respondent state: Utah
- Citation: 114 U.S. 15
- How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
- What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
- Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
- Who wrote the majority opinion: Stanley Matthews
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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