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THE FOLMINA (1909)

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THE FOLMINA
Term: 1908
Important Dates
Argued: January 21, 1909
Decided: February 23, 1909
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

THE FOLMINA 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 21, 1909.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the New York Eastern 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: Private Action - Evidence
  • Petitioner: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Shipper, including importer and exporter
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 212 U.S. 354
  • 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 unspecifiable.

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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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