SUN PRINTING AND PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION v. EDWARDS (1904)

SUN PRINTING AND PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION v. EDWARDS
	Term: 1903
Important Dates
	Argued: April 20, 1904
	Decided: May 16, 1904
Outcome
	Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
	7-2
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham

SUN PRINTING AND PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION v. EDWARDS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 16, 1904. The case was argued before the court on April 20, 1904.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the New York U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New York.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Sufficiency of evidence: typically in the context of a jury's determination of compensation for injury or death
Petitioner: Publisher, publishing company
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 194 U.S. 377
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
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: Edward Douglass White

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.