SLIDELL & ANOTHER v. GRANDJEAN, DEPUTY SURVEYOR OF THE UNITED STATES (1883) - Ballotpedia

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SLIDELL & ANOTHER v. GRANDJEAN, DEPUTY SURVEYOR OF THE UNITED STATES

Term: 1883
Important Dates
Decided: October 1, 1883
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

SLIDELL & ANOTHER v. GRANDJEAN, DEPUTY SURVEYOR OF THE UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 1, 1883.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - state and territorial land claims
Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Respondent state: United States
Citation: 111 U.S. 412
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
Who wrote the majority opinion: Stephen Johnson Field

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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