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OSBORNE v. ADAMS COUNTY (1883)

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OSBORNE v. ADAMS COUNTY
Term: 1883
Important Dates
Decided: October 15, 1883
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

OSBORNE v. ADAMS COUNTY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 15, 1883.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Nebraska U.S. Circuit for the District of Nebraska.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - State or local government regulation, especially of business (cf. federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction, federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation)
  • Petitioner: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
  • Respondent state: Nebraska
  • Citation: 109 U.S. 1
  • 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: Morrison Waite
  • 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.

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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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