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STEPHEN V.R. ABLEMAN, PLFF. IN ER., v. SHERMAN M. BOOTH (1856)

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STEPHEN V.R. ABLEMAN, PLFF. IN ER., v. SHERMAN M. BOOTH
Term: 1855
Important Dates
Argued: January 4, 1856
Decided: May 9, 1856
Outcome
No disposition
Vote
9-0
Majority
John Archibald Campbell • John Catron • Benjamin Robbins Curtis • Peter Vivian Daniel • Robert Cooper Grier • John McLean • Samuel Nelson • Roger Brooke Taney • James Moore Wayne

STEPHEN V.R. ABLEMAN, PLFF. IN ER., v. SHERMAN M. BOOTH is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 9, 1856. The case was argued before the court on January 4, 1856.

The U.S. Supreme Court did not issue a ruling.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1850s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taney Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: miscellaneous
  • Petitioner: Unidentifiable
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Unidentifiable
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 59 U.S. 479
  • 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: Roger Brooke Taney
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Roger Brooke Taney

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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