STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA v. COLLINS (1919)

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STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA v. COLLINS
Term: 1918
Important Dates
Decided: March 17, 1919
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA v. COLLINS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 17, 1919.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 9-0 ruling.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Attorneys - Attorneys' and governmental employees' or officials' fees or compensation or licenses
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: South Dakota
  • Respondent type: Retired or former governmental employee
  • Respondent state: South Dakota
  • Citation: 249 U.S. 220
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Joseph McKenna

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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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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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