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THE EUGENE F. MORAN (1909)

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THE EUGENE F. MORAN
Term: 1908
Important Dates
Argued: January 22, 1909
Decided: February 23, 1909
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah BrewerWilliam Rufus DayMelville Weston FullerJohn Marshall HarlanOliver Wendell HolmesJoseph McKennaWilliam Henry MoodyRufus Wheeler PeckhamEdward Douglass White

THE EUGENE F. MORAN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 23, 1909. The case was argued before the court on January 22, 1909.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the New York Southern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1900s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
  • Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Railroad
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 212 U.S. 466
  • 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: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.

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