THE JUSTICES v. MURRAY (1870)

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THE JUSTICES v. MURRAY
Term: 1869
Important Dates
Argued: February 24, 1869
Decided: March 14, 1870
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
7-0
Majority
Salmon Portland Chase • Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Stephen Johnson Field • Samuel Freeman Miller • Samuel Nelson • Noah Haynes Swayne

THE JUSTICES v. MURRAY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 14, 1870. The case was argued before the court on February 24, 1869.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the New York U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New York.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1860s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Chase Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federalism - national supremacy: miscellaneous
  • Petitioner: Judge
  • Petitioner state: New York
  • Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
  • Respondent state: United States
  • Citation: 76 U.S. 274
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Salmon Portland Chase
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Samuel Nelson

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.

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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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