NEW YORK EX REL. SILZ v. HESTERBERG, SHERIFF OF KINGS COUNTY (1908)

NEW YORK EX REL. SILZ v. HESTERBERG, SHERIFF OF KINGS COUNTY
	Term: 1908
Important Dates
	Argued: October 12, 1908
	Decided: November 2, 1908
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

NEW YORK EX REL. SILZ v. HESTERBERG, SHERIFF OF KINGS COUNTY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 2, 1908. The case was argued before the court on October 12, 1908.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - State or local government regulation, especially of business (cf. federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction, federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation)
Petitioner: Arrested person, or pretrial detainee
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Respondent state: New York
Citation: 211 U.S. 31
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: 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 liberal.