NEW ORLEANS v. NEW ORLEANS WATER WORKS COMPANY. (1891)

NEW ORLEANS v. NEW ORLEANS WATER WORKS COMPANY.
	Term: 1891
Important Dates
	Argued: November 2, 1891
	Decided: December 14, 1891
Outcome
	Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
	8-1
Majority
	Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
Dissenting
	John Marshall Harlan

NEW ORLEANS v. NEW ORLEANS WATER WORKS COMPANY. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 14, 1891. The case was argued before the court on November 2, 1891.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Louisiana State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: dismissed or affirmed for want of a substantial or properly presented federal question, or a nonsuit
Petitioner: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Petitioner state: Louisiana
Respondent type: Business, corporation
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 142 U.S. 79
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: Henry Billings Brown

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.