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SEARL v. SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2 (1888)

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SEARL v. SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2
Term: 1887
Important Dates
Argued: December 20, 1887
Decided: January 16, 1888
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite

SEARL v. SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2 is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 16, 1888. The case was argued before the court on December 20, 1887.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Colorado U.S. Circuit for the District of Colorado.

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.

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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: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Local school district or board of education
  • Respondent state: Colorado
  • Citation: 124 U.S. 197
  • 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.

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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
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