ST. MARY'S FRANCO-AMERICAN PETROLEUM COMPANY v. WEST VIRGINIA (1906) - Ballotpedia

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ST. MARY'S FRANCO-AMERICAN PETROLEUM COMPANY v. WEST VIRGINIA

Term: 1906
Important Dates
Decided: December 3, 1906
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

ST. MARY'S FRANCO-AMERICAN PETROLEUM COMPANY v. WEST VIRGINIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 3, 1906.

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

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About the case

Subject matter: Due Process - Due process: jurisdiction (jurisdiction over non-resident litigants)
Petitioner: Oil company, or natural gas producer
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State
Respondent state: West Virginia
Citation: 203 U.S. 183
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: Melville Weston Fuller

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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