SAWYER v. KOCHERSPERGER (1898)

SAWYER v. KOCHERSPERGER
	Term: 1897
Important Dates
	Argued: January 28, 1898
	Decided: April 25, 1898
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

SAWYER v. KOCHERSPERGER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 25, 1898. The case was argued before the court on January 28, 1898.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Kansas U.S. Circuit for the District of Kansas.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - comity primarily removal cases, civil procedure (cf. comity, criminal and First Amendment); deference to foreign judicial tribunals
Petitioner: Private person
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Respondent state: Illinois
Citation: 170 U.S. 303
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: Joseph McKenna

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.