UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. UNITED STATES (January 18, 1886) - Ballotpedia

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UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1885
Important Dates
Decided: January 18, 1886
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 18, 1886.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Claims, Court of Federal Claims.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: jurisdiction or authority of the Court of Claims
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 116 U.S. 402
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
Who wrote the majority opinion: Morrison Waite

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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