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RATON WATER WORKS COMPANY v. CITY OF RATON

Term: 1918
Important Dates
Argued: April 29, 1919
Decided: May 5, 1919
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

RATON WATER WORKS COMPANY v. CITY OF RATON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 5, 1919. The case was argued before the court on April 29, 1919.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the New Mexico U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: jurisdiction or authority of federal courts of appeals
Petitioner: Business, corporation
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Respondent state: New Mexico
Citation: 249 U.S. 552
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
Who wrote the majority opinion: Edward Douglass White

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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