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SAND FILTRATION CORPORATION OF AMERICA v. COWARDIN (1909)

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SAND FILTRATION CORPORATION OF AMERICA v. COWARDIN |
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Term: 1908 |
Important Dates |
Argued: April 6, 1909 |
Decided: April 26, 1909 |
Outcome |
Affirmed (includes modified) |
Vote |
7-2 |
Majority |
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White |
Dissenting |
Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody |
SAND FILTRATION CORPORATION OF AMERICA v. COWARDIN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 26, 1909. The case was argued before the court on April 6, 1909.
In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.
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About the case
- Subject matter: Private Action - Contracts
- Petitioner: Debtor
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: Government contractor
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 213 U.S. 360
- How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
- What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
- Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
- Who wrote the majority opinion: William Rufus Day
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 unspecifiable.
See also
- United States Supreme Court cases and courts
- Supreme Court of the United States
- History of the Supreme Court
- United States federal courts
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