NEW ORLEANS v. STEMPEL (1899)

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NEW ORLEANS v. STEMPEL
Term: 1899
Important Dates
Argued: October 25, 1899
Decided: December 4, 1899
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
7-2
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan • Edward Douglass White

NEW ORLEANS v. STEMPEL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 4, 1899. The case was argued before the court on October 25, 1899.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Louisiana U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Louisiana.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Louisiana
  • Respondent type: State or local governmental taxpayer, or executor of the estate of
  • Respondent state: Louisiana
  • Citation: 175 U.S. 309
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • 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: David Josiah Brewer

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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