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ROGERS v. JONES (1909)

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ROGERS v. JONES
Term: 1908
Important Dates
Decided: May 24, 1909
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
8-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham

ROGERS v. JONES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 24, 1909.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Mississippi State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1900s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: First Amendment - First Amendment, miscellaneous (cf. comity: First Amendment)
  • Petitioner: Heir, or beneficiary, or person so claiming to be
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
  • Respondent state: Mississippi
  • Citation: 214 U.S. 196
  • 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: Melville Weston Fuller

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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