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NORTHERN SECURITIES COMPANY v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1903
Important Dates
Argued: December 14, 1903
Decided: March 14, 1904
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Judgment of the court
John Marshall Harlan
Majority
Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Joseph McKenna
Concurring
David Josiah Brewer
Dissenting
Melville Weston Fuller • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

NORTHERN SECURITIES COMPANY v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 14, 1904. The case was argued before the court on December 14, 1903.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Minnesota U.S. Circuit for the District of Minnesota.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Antitrust (except in the context of mergers and union antitrust)
Petitioner: Broker, stock exchange, investment or securities firm
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 193 U.S. 197
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: John Marshall Harlan

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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