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SAVINGS AND LOAN SOCIETY v. MULTNOMAH COUNTY

Term: 1897
Important Dates
Argued: October 29, 1897
Decided: March 7, 1898
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-2
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan • Edward Douglass White

SAVINGS AND LOAN SOCIETY v. MULTNOMAH COUNTY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 7, 1898. The case was argued before the court on October 29, 1897.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Oregon U.S. Circuit for the District of Oregon.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
Petitioner: Bank, savings and loan, credit union, investment company
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Respondent state: Oregon
Citation: 169 U.S. 421
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: Horace Gray

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

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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