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RICHARD BEIN AND MARY, HIS WIFE, APPELLANTS, v. MARY HEATH (1848)

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RICHARD BEIN AND MARY, HIS WIFE, APPELLANTS, v. MARY HEATH
Term: 1848
Important Dates
Argued: December 13, 1847
Decided: March 11, 1848
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-3
Majority
John Catron • Peter Vivian Daniel • John McLean • James Moore Wayne • Levi Woodbury
Dissenting
Robert Cooper Grier • Samuel Nelson • Roger Brooke Taney

RICHARD BEIN AND MARY, HIS WIFE, APPELLANTS, v. MARY HEATH is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 11, 1848. The case was argued before the court on December 13, 1847.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Louisiana U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Louisiana.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1840s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taney Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - Sex discrimination (excluding sex discrimination in employment)
  • Petitioner: Creditor, including institution appearing as such; e.g., a finance company
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Debtor
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 47 U.S. 228
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Roger Brooke Taney
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: John McLean

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.

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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
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