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UNITED STATES v. ANDREWS (1916)

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UNITED STATES v. ANDREWS
Term: 1915
Important Dates
Argued: January 21, 1916
Decided: February 21, 1916
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-0
Majority
Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph McKenna • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

UNITED STATES v. ANDREWS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 21, 1916. The case was argued before the court on January 21, 1916.

In a 6-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Claims, Court of Federal Claims.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1910s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the White Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - military: active duty
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Military personnel, or dependent of, including reservist
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 240 U.S. 90
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • 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 liberal.

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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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