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ROSENBAUM v. BAUER (1887)

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ROSENBAUM v. BAUER
Term: 1886
Important Dates
Decided: March 7, 1887
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-3
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite
Dissenting
Joseph Bradley • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews

ROSENBAUM v. BAUER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 7, 1887.

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

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.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: jurisdiction or authority of federal courts of appeals
  • Petitioner: Stockholder, shareholder, or bondholder
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
  • Respondent state: California
  • Citation: 120 U.S. 450
  • 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: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Samuel Blatchford

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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