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THE UNITED STATES v. JOB L. BARBER (1815)

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THE UNITED STATES v. JOB L. BARBER
Term: 1815
Important Dates
Decided: March 7, 1815
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
6-0
Majority
Gabriel Duvall • William Johnson Jr. • Henry Brockholst Livingston • John Marshall • Joseph Story • Bushrod Washington

THE UNITED STATES v. JOB L. BARBER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 7, 1815.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Vermont U.S. Circuit for the District of Vermont.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1810s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Marshall Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: war crimes
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Person accused, indicted, or suspected of crime
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 13 U.S. 243
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: John Marshall
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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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