SPRING VALLEY WATER WORKS v. SCHOTTLER & OTHERS, SUPERVISORS (1884)

SPRING VALLEY WATER WORKS v. SCHOTTLER & OTHERS, SUPERVISORS
	Term: 1883
Important Dates
	Argued: November 20, 1883
	Decided: February 4, 1884
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	8-1
Majority
	Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods
Dissenting
	Stephen Johnson Field

SPRING VALLEY WATER WORKS v. SCHOTTLER & OTHERS, SUPERVISORS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 4, 1884. The case was argued before the court on November 20, 1883.

In an 8-1 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 or local government regulation, especially of business (cf. federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction, federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation)
Petitioner: Public utility
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Respondent state: California
Citation: 110 U.S. 347
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: Morrison Waite

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.