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SHERMAN v. UNITED STATES (1895)

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SHERMAN v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1894
Important Dates
Decided: January 14, 1895
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
David Josiah BrewerHenry Billings BrownStephen Johnson FieldMelville Weston FullerHorace GrayJohn Marshall HarlanGeorge ShirasEdward Douglass White

SHERMAN v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 14, 1895.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Claims, Court of Federal Claims.

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.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Attorneys - Attorneys' and governmental employees' or officials' fees or compensation or licenses
  • Petitioner: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
  • Petitioner state: Illinois
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 155 U.S. 673
  • 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: Henry Billings Brown

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.

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