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NUTT v. KNUT

Term: 1905
Important Dates
Argued: November 29, 1905
Decided: January 2, 1906
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham
Concurring
Melville Weston Fuller • Edward Douglass White

NUTT v. KNUT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 2, 1906. The case was argued before the court on November 29, 1905.

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

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About the case

Subject matter: Attorneys - Attorneys' and governmental employees' or officials' fees or compensation or licenses
Petitioner: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Attorney, or person acting as such;includes bar applicant or law student, or law firm or bar association
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 200 U.S. 12
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: 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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