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NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. HAMBLY (1894)

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NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. HAMBLY
Term: 1893
Important Dates
Decided: May 26, 1894
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
6-3
Majority
David Josiah BrewerHenry Billings BrownHorace GrayHowell Edmunds JacksonGeorge ShirasEdward Douglass White
Dissenting
Stephen Johnson FieldMelville Weston FullerJohn Marshall Harlan

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. HAMBLY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 26, 1894.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the North Dakota U.S. Circuit Court for (all) District(s) of North Dakota.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 154 U.S. 349
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • 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.

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