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PECK, PETITIONER, v. TRIBUNE COMPANY

Term: 1908
Important Dates
Argued: April 29, 1909
Decided: May 17, 1909
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

PECK, PETITIONER, v. TRIBUNE COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 17, 1909. The case was argued before the court on April 29, 1909.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Illinois.

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About the case

Subject matter: First Amendment - Libel, privacy: true and false light invasions of privacy
Petitioner: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Newspaper, newsletter, journal of opinion, news service
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 214 U.S. 185
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.

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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