NEW YORK COUNTY NATIONAL BANK v. MASSEY (1904) - Ballotpedia

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NEW YORK COUNTY NATIONAL BANK v. MASSEY

Term: 1903
Important Dates
Argued: December 11, 1903
Decided: January 4, 1904
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-1
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Joseph McKenna

NEW YORK COUNTY NATIONAL BANK v. MASSEY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 4, 1904. The case was argued before the court on December 11, 1903.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York Southern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Bankruptcy (except in the context of priority of federal fiscal claims)
Petitioner: Bank, savings and loan, credit union, investment company
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Bankrupt person or business, or business in reorganization
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 192 U.S. 138
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: William Rufus Day

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.

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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