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SELVESTER v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1897
Important Dates
Argued: March 14, 1898
Decided: April 25, 1898
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Henry Billings Brown • Horace Gray • George Shiras

SELVESTER v. UNITED STATES 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 March 14, 1898.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California Northern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: financial (other than in fraud or internal revenue)
Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 170 U.S. 262
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: Edward Douglass White

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.

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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