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UNITED STATES EX REL. PARISH v. MACVEAGH, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY

Term: 1908
Important Dates
Argued: March 11, 1909
Decided: May 17, 1909
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

UNITED STATES EX REL. PARISH v. MACVEAGH, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 17, 1909. The case was argued before the court on March 11, 1909.

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

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: extraordinary relief (e.g., mandamus, injunction)
Petitioner: Government contractor
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Department or Secretary of the Treasury
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 214 U.S. 124
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: Joseph McKenna

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.

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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