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NOONAN v. CALEDONIA MINING COMPANY (1887)

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NOONAN v. CALEDONIA MINING COMPANY
Term: 1886
Important Dates
Argued: March 29, 1887
Decided: April 18, 1887
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite

NOONAN v. CALEDONIA MINING COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 18, 1887. The case was argued before the court on March 29, 1887.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the North Dakota Territorial Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - state and territorial land claims
  • Petitioner: Mining company or miner, excluding coal, oil, or pipeline company
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Mining company or miner, excluding coal, oil, or pipeline company
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 121 U.S. 393
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Stephen Johnson Field

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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