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THE IRRAWADDY (1898)
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| THE IRRAWADDY |
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| Term: 1897 |
| Important Dates |
| Decided: May 31, 1898 |
| Outcome |
| Certification to or from a lower court |
| Vote |
| 7-2 |
| Majority |
| David Josiah Brewer • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White |
| Dissenting |
| Henry Billings Brown • Joseph McKenna |
THE IRRAWADDY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 31, 1898.
The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the New York Southern U.S. District Court.
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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: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 171 U.S. 187
- 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: George Shiras
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.
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