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NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. SODERBERG

Term: 1902
Important Dates
Argued: December 12, 1902
Decided: February 23, 1903
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
David Josiah Brewer • Rufus Wheeler Peckham

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. SODERBERG is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 23, 1903. The case was argued before the court on December 12, 1902.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Washington U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Washington.

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About the case

Subject matter: Private Action - Real property
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Mining company or miner, excluding coal, oil, or pipeline company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 188 U.S. 526
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: 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 unspecifiable.

See also

External links

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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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