RAYMOND, COUNTY TREASURER, v. CHICAGO EDISON COMPANY (1907) - Ballotpedia

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RAYMOND, COUNTY TREASURER, v. CHICAGO EDISON COMPANY

Term: 1907
Important Dates
Argued: August 7, 1907
Decided: October 21, 1907
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Oliver Wendell Holmes • William Henry Moody

RAYMOND, COUNTY TREASURER, v. CHICAGO EDISON COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 21, 1907. The case was argued before the court on August 7, 1907.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Illinois.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
Petitioner: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Petitioner state: Illinois
Respondent type: Unidentifiable
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 207 U.S. 42
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: Rufus Wheeler Peckham

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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