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THOMAS GRIFFIN AND HUGH ERVIN v. ROBERT THOMPSON (1844)

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THOMAS GRIFFIN AND HUGH ERVIN v. ROBERT THOMPSON
Term: 1844
Important Dates
Decided: February 28, 1844
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
7-0
Majority
Henry Baldwin • John Catron • Peter Vivian Daniel • John McKinley • John McLean • Joseph Story • James Moore Wayne

THOMAS GRIFFIN AND HUGH ERVIN v. ROBERT THOMPSON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 28, 1844.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1840s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taney Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - Debtors' rights
  • Petitioner: Debtor
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 43 U.S. 244
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Roger Brooke Taney
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Peter Vivian Daniel

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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