RICHARDSON v. MCCHESNEY, SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY (1910)

RICHARDSON v. MCCHESNEY, SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY
	Term: 1910
Important Dates
	Argued: October 31, 1910
	Decided: November 28, 1910
Outcome
	Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
	7-0
Majority
	William Rufus Day • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White

RICHARDSON v. MCCHESNEY, SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 28, 1910. The case was argued before the court on October 31, 1910.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Kentucky State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - Mootness (cf. standing to sue: live dispute)
Petitioner: voter, prospective voter, elector, or a nonelective official seeking reapportionment or redistricting of legislative districts (POL)
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Respondent state: Kentucky
Citation: 218 U.S. 487
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: Horace Harmon Lurton

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.