UNITED STATES RUBBER COMPANY v. AMERICAN OAK LEATHER COMPANY (1901) - Ballotpedia

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UNITED STATES RUBBER COMPANY v. AMERICAN OAK LEATHER COMPANY

Term: 1900
Important Dates
Argued: January 25, 1901
Decided: May 13, 1901
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

UNITED STATES RUBBER COMPANY v. AMERICAN OAK LEATHER COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 13, 1901. The case was argued before the court on January 25, 1901.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Illinois.

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About the case

Subject matter: Private Action - Commercial transactions
Petitioner: Creditor, including institution appearing as such; e.g., a finance company
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Creditor, including institution appearing as such; e.g., a finance company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 181 U.S. 434
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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: George Shiras

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.

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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