UNITED STATES v. CALIFORNIA AND OREGON LAND COMPANY (1904)

UNITED STATES v. CALIFORNIA AND OREGON LAND COMPANY
	Term: 1903
Important Dates
	Argued: March 14, 1902
	Decided: February 1, 1904
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	6-3
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan

UNITED STATES v. CALIFORNIA AND OREGON LAND COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 1, 1904. The case was argued before the court on March 14, 1902.

In a 6-3 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 Oregon U.S. Circuit for the District of Oregon.

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About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - Indians (other than pertains to state jurisdiction over)
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: 192 U.S. 355
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.