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SAMUEL D. HARRIS AND OTHERS v. JESSE D. ELLIOTT (1836)

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SAMUEL D. HARRIS AND OTHERS v. JESSE D. ELLIOTT
Term: 1836
Important Dates
Argued: January 15, 1836
Decided: January 23, 1836
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
5-0
Majority
Henry Baldwin • John McLean • Joseph Story • Smith Thompson • James Moore Wayne

SAMUEL D. HARRIS AND OTHERS v. JESSE D. ELLIOTT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 23, 1836. The case was argued before the court on January 15, 1836.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Massachusetts U.S. Circuit for the District of Massachusetts.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1830s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Marshall Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Due Process - Due process: takings clause, or other non-constitutional governmental taking of property
  • Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Secretary or administrative unit of the U.S. Navy
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 35 U.S. 25
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: John Marshall
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Smith Thompson

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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