PULLMAN COMPANY v. STATE OF KANSAS EX REL. COLEMAN, ATTORNEY GENERAL (1910) - Ballotpedia

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PULLMAN COMPANY v. STATE OF KANSAS EX REL. COLEMAN, ATTORNEY GENERAL

Term: 1909
Important Dates
Argued: March 17, 1909
Decided: January 31, 1910
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
5-3
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • John Marshall Harlan • William Henry Moody
Concurring
Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Melville Weston Fuller • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna

PULLMAN COMPANY v. STATE OF KANSAS EX REL. COLEMAN, ATTORNEY GENERAL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 31, 1910. The case was argued before the court on March 17, 1909.

In a 5-3 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 State Supreme Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
Petitioner: Business, corporation
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State
Respondent state: Kansas
Citation: 216 U.S. 56
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: John Marshall Harlan

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.

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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