PEREZ v. FERNANDEZ (1906)

PEREZ v. FERNANDEZ
	Term: 1905
Important Dates
	Argued: April 29, 1904
	Decided: April 23, 1906
Outcome
	Reversed
Vote
	7-2
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Rufus Wheeler Peckham
Dissenting
	Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White

PEREZ v. FERNANDEZ is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 23, 1906. The case was argued before the court on April 29, 1904.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Puerto Rico U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - Federal Rules of Civil Procedure including Supreme Court Rules, application of the Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure in civil litigation, Circuit Court Rules, and state rules and admiralty rules
Petitioner: Creditor, including institution appearing as such; e.g., a finance company
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Debtor
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 202 U.S. 80
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: William Rufus Day

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.