OREGON SHORT LINE AND UTAH NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. SKOTTOWE (1896)

OREGON SHORT LINE AND UTAH NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. SKOTTOWE
	Term: 1895
Important Dates
	Argued: March 17, 1896
	Decided: April 20, 1896
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

OREGON SHORT LINE AND UTAH NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. SKOTTOWE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 20, 1896. The case was argued before the court on March 17, 1896.

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

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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: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Physically injured person, including wrongful death, who is not an employee
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 162 U.S. 490
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: George Shiras

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.