UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. DANIELS (1894)

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UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. DANIELS |
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Term: 1893 |
Important Dates |
Argued: March 13, 1894 |
Decided: April 16, 1894 |
Outcome |
Affirmed (includes modified) |
Vote |
8-0 |
Majority |
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White |
UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. DANIELS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 16, 1894. The case was argued before the court on March 13, 1894.
In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Utah Territorial Trial Court.
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About the case
- Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
- Petitioner: Railroad
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 152 U.S. 684
- How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
- 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
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