Help us improve in just 2 minutes—share your thoughts in our reader survey.

ROGERS v. PALMER (1880)

From Ballotpedia
Jump to: navigation, search

Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
ROGERS v. PALMER
Term: 1880
Important Dates
Argued: November 18, 1880
Decided: December 6, 1880
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-1
Majority
Joseph Bradley • John Marshall Harlan • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite
Dissenting
Stephen Johnson Field

ROGERS v. PALMER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 6, 1880. The case was argued before the court on November 18, 1880.

In a 6-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Minnesota U.S. Circuit for the District of Minnesota.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

[1]

About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Bankruptcy (except in the context of priority of federal fiscal claims)
  • Petitioner: Bankrupt person or business, or business in reorganization
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Father
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 102 U.S. 263
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Samuel Freeman Miller

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.

See also

External links

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
Retrieved from "https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=ROGERS_v._PALMER_(1880)&oldid=9503977"