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NEW JERSEY v. CITY OF NEW YORK (1931)

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NEW JERSEY v. CITY OF NEW YORK
Term: 1930
Important Dates
Argued: April 30, 1931
Decided: May 18, 1931
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • James Clark McReynolds • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • Willis Van Devanter

NEW JERSEY v. CITY OF NEW YORK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 18, 1931. The case was argued before the court on April 30, 1931.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 9-0 ruling.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1930s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Hughes Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: extraordinary relief (e.g., mandamus, injunction)
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: New Jersey
  • Respondent type: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
  • Respondent state: New York
  • Citation: 283 U.S. 473
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Charles Evans Hughes
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Pierce Butler

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.

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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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