UNITED STATES v. ARCHER (1916)

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UNITED STATES v. ARCHER
Term: 1915
Important Dates
Argued: December 7, 1915
Decided: May 1, 1916
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
6-1
Majority
William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph McKenna • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Mahlon Pitney

UNITED STATES v. ARCHER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 1, 1916. The case was argued before the court on December 7, 1915.

In a 6-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Claims, Court of Federal Claims.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: jurisdiction or authority of the Court of Claims
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 241 U.S. 119
  • 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: 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 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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