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ROYAL PACKING COMPANY v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1905
Important Dates
Argued: December 5, 1905
Decided: December 29, 1905
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

ROYAL PACKING COMPANY v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 29, 1905. The case was argued before the court on December 5, 1905.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Claims, Court of Federal Claims.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - state and territorial land claims
Petitioner: Business, corporation
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 199 U.S. 579
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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