POSTAL TELEGRAPH CABLE COMPANY v. CHARLESTON (1894)

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POSTAL TELEGRAPH CABLE COMPANY v. CHARLESTON
Term: 1893
Important Dates
Decided: May 14, 1894
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Henry Billings Brown • John Marshall Harlan • Howell Edmunds Jackson

POSTAL TELEGRAPH CABLE COMPANY v. CHARLESTON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 14, 1894.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the South Carolina U.S. Circuit for the District of South Carolina.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
  • Petitioner: Telephone, telecommunications, or telegraph company
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
  • Respondent state: South Carolina
  • Citation: 153 U.S. 692
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • 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: George Shiras

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.

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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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