PIERCE v. TENNESSEE COAL, IRON AND RAILROAD COMPANY (1899)

PIERCE v. TENNESSEE COAL, IRON AND RAILROAD COMPANY
	Term: 1898
Important Dates
	Argued: January 19, 1899
	Decided: February 20, 1899
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

PIERCE v. TENNESSEE COAL, IRON AND RAILROAD COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 20, 1899. The case was argued before the court on January 19, 1899.

In a 9-0 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 Alabama U.S. Circuit Court for (all) District(s) of Alabama.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
Petitioner: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Railroad
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 173 U.S. 1
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: Horace Gray

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.