PACIFIC RAILROAD REMOVAL CASES.; UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. MYERS (1885)

PACIFIC RAILROAD REMOVAL CASES.; UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. MYERS
	Term: 1884
Important Dates
	Argued: November 20, 1884
	Decided: May 4, 1885
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	7-2
Majority
	Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • William Burnham Woods
Dissenting
	Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite

PACIFIC RAILROAD REMOVAL CASES.; UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. MYERS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 4, 1885. The case was argued before the court on November 20, 1884.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Kansas U.S. Circuit for the District of Kansas.

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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: 115 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: Joseph Bradley

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 liberal.