UNITED STATES EX REL. BROWN v. LANE, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR (1914)

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UNITED STATES EX REL. BROWN v. LANE, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
Term: 1913
Important Dates
Decided: March 2, 1914
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
8-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Joseph McKenna • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

UNITED STATES EX REL. BROWN v. LANE, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 2, 1914.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Evidence
  • Petitioner: Indian, including Indian tribe or nation
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Department or Secretary of the Interior
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 232 U.S. 598
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Edward Douglass White

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 unspecifiable.

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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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