RALLI v. TROOP (1895)

From Ballotpedia
Jump to: navigation, search

Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
RALLI v. TROOP
Term: 1894
Important Dates
Argued: March 19, 1894
Decided: April 1, 1895
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
7-2
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Howell Edmunds Jackson • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Henry Billings Brown • John Marshall Harlan

RALLI v. TROOP is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 1, 1895. The case was argued before the court on March 19, 1894.

In a 7-2 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 New York Southern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

[1]

About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
  • Petitioner: Shipper, including importer and exporter
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Shipper, including importer and exporter
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 157 U.S. 386
  • 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: 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.

See also

External links

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
Retrieved from "https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=RALLI_v._TROOP_(1895)&oldid=9502961"