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THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, PETITIONER (1869)

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THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, PETITIONER
Term: 1868
Important Dates
Argued: February 12, 1869
Decided: February 15, 1869
Outcome
No disposition
Vote
8-0
Majority
Salmon Portland Chase • Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Stephen Johnson Field • Robert Cooper Grier • Samuel Freeman Miller • Samuel Nelson • Noah Haynes Swayne

THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, PETITIONER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 15, 1869. The case was argued before the court on February 12, 1869.

The U.S. Supreme Court did not issue a ruling. The case originated from the Virginia U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Virginia.

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: Judicial Power - judicial administration: miscellaneous
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Virginia
  • Respondent type: Judge
  • Respondent state: United States
  • Citation: 131 U.S. lxxxix
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Prohibition
  • 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: Salmon Portland Chase

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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