TUSKALOOSA NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. GUDE (1891)

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TUSKALOOSA NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. GUDE
Term: 1890
Important Dates
Decided: February 2, 1891
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

TUSKALOOSA NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. GUDE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 2, 1891.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Alabama U.S. Circuit Court for (all) District(s) of Alabama.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - Supreme Court's certiorari, writ of error, or appeals jurisdiction
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Unidentifiable
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 141 U.S. 244
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Unspecified, other
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
  • 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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