UNITED STATES v. CHANDLER-DUNBAR WATER POWER COMPANY (1908)

UNITED STATES v. CHANDLER-DUNBAR WATER POWER COMPANY
	Term: 1907
Important Dates
	Argued: April 6, 1908
	Decided: April 20, 1908
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	8-1
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	John Marshall Harlan

UNITED STATES v. CHANDLER-DUNBAR WATER POWER COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 20, 1908. The case was argued before the court on April 6, 1908.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Michigan U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Michigan.

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About the case

Subject matter: Federalism - national supremacy: natural resources (cf. natural resources - environmental protection)
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: 209 U.S. 447
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.