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OLIVER SAUNDERS, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR VS. BENJAMIN GOULD (1830)

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OLIVER SAUNDERS, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR VS. BENJAMIN GOULD
Term: 1830
Important Dates
Decided: March 2, 1830
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
7-0
Majority
Henry Baldwin • Gabriel Duvall • William Johnson Jr. • John Marshall • John McLean • Joseph Story • Smith Thompson

OLIVER SAUNDERS, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR VS. BENJAMIN GOULD is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 2, 1830.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Rhode Island U.S. Circuit for the District of Rhode Island.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1830s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Marshall Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - comity primarily removal cases, civil procedure (cf. comity, criminal and First Amendment); deference to foreign judicial tribunals
  • Petitioner: Unidentifiable
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Unidentifiable
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 29 U.S. 392
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: John Marshall
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: John Marshall

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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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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