TINSLEY v. TREAT, UNITED STATES MARSHAL (1907) - Ballotpedia

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TINSLEY v. TREAT, UNITED STATES MARSHAL

Term: 1906
Important Dates
Argued: December 3, 1906
Decided: March 4, 1907
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
7-1
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan

TINSLEY v. TREAT, UNITED STATES MARSHAL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 4, 1907. The case was argued before the court on December 3, 1906.

In a 7-1 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 Virginia U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Virginia.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Habeas corpus
Petitioner: Defendant
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Respondent state: United States
Citation: 205 U.S. 20
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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: Melville Weston Fuller

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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