SAUER v. CITY OF NEW YORK (1907)

SAUER v. CITY OF NEW YORK
	Term: 1906
Important Dates
	Argued: March 21, 1907
	Decided: May 27, 1907
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	7-2
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	William Rufus Day • Joseph McKenna

SAUER v. CITY OF NEW YORK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 27, 1907. The case was argued before the court on March 21, 1907.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York State Trial Court.

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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: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Respondent state: New York
Citation: 206 U.S. 536
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: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: William Henry Moody

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.