SANDS v. EDMUNDS (1886)

From Ballotpedia
Jump to: navigation, search

Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
SANDS v. EDMUNDS
Term: 1885
Important Dates
Argued: January 7, 1886
Decided: February 1, 1886
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

SANDS v. EDMUNDS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 1, 1886. The case was argued before the court on January 7, 1886.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Virginia State Trial Court.

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: Attorneys - Attorneys' and governmental employees' or officials' fees or compensation or licenses
  • Petitioner: Attorney, or person acting as such;includes bar applicant or law student, or law firm or bar association
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Governmental employee or job applicant
  • Respondent state: Virginia
  • Citation: 116 U.S. 585
  • 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: Stanley Matthews

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=SANDS_v._EDMUNDS_(1886)&oldid=9504376"