ST. LOUIS v. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY (March 6, 1893) - Ballotpedia

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ST. LOUIS v. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY

Term: 1892
Important Dates
Argued: December 16, 1892
Decided: March 6, 1893
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
6-1
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • David Josiah Brewer • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • George Shiras
Dissenting
Henry Billings Brown

ST. LOUIS v. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 6, 1893. The case was argued before the court on December 16, 1892.

In a 6-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Missouri U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Missouri.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
Petitioner: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Petitioner state: Missouri
Respondent type: Telephone, telecommunications, or telegraph company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 148 U.S. 92
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: David Josiah Brewer

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.

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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