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STEWART v. WASHINGTON AND ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY

Term: 1901
Important Dates
Argued: December 8, 1902
Decided: January 5, 1903
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

STEWART v. WASHINGTON AND ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 5, 1903. The case was argued before the court on December 8, 1902.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Alaska U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Private Action - Commercial transactions
Petitioner: Stockholder, shareholder, or bondholder
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Business, corporation
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 187 U.S. 466
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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 unspecifiable.

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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