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NATIONAL ACCIDENT SOCIETY v. SPIRO

Term: 1896
Important Dates
Decided: November 30, 1896
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
7-2
Majority
Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
David Josiah Brewer • Rufus Wheeler Peckham

NATIONAL ACCIDENT SOCIETY v. SPIRO is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 30, 1896.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Tennessee U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Tennessee.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - comity primarily removal cases, civil procedure (cf. comity, criminal and First Amendment); deference to foreign judicial tribunals
Petitioner: Unidentifiable
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Unidentifiable
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 164 U.S. 281
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
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: Melville Weston Fuller

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 liberal.

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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