TERRACE et al. v. THOMPSON, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON (1923)

TERRACE et al. v. THOMPSON, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON
	Term: 1923
Important Dates
	Argued: April 23, 1923
	Decided: November 12, 1923
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	6-2
Majority
	Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Edward Terry Sanford • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter
Dissenting
	Louis Dembitz Brandeis • James Clark McReynolds

TERRACE et al. v. THOMPSON, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 12, 1923. The case was argued before the court on April 23, 1923.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Washington Western U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - immigration and naturalization: miscellaneous
Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Respondent state: Washington
Citation: 263 U.S. 197
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
Who wrote the majority opinion: Pierce Butler

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.