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STATE OF WISCONSIN v. LANE, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR (1918)

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STATE OF WISCONSIN v. LANE, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
Term: 1917
Important Dates
Argued: December 11, 1917
Decided: January 7, 1918
Vote
8-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

STATE OF WISCONSIN v. LANE, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 7, 1918. The case was argued before the court on December 11, 1917.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 8-0 ruling.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1910s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the White Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - Indians (other than pertains to state jurisdiction over)
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Wisconsin
  • Respondent type: Department or Secretary of the Interior
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 245 U.S. 427
  • 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: William Rufus Day

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.

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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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