NADEAU et al. v. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY (1920)

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NADEAU et al. v. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY
Term: 1919
Important Dates
Argued: January 9, 1920
Decided: June 7, 1920
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-1
Majority
William Rufus Day • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
John Hessin Clarke

NADEAU et al. v. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 7, 1920. The case was argued before the court on January 9, 1920.

In a 5-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Kansas U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1910s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the White Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - Indians (other than pertains to state jurisdiction over)
  • Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Railroad
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 253 U.S. 442
  • 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: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: James Clark McReynolds

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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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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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