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UNITED STATES v. HOLLIDAY

Term: 1865
Important Dates
Argued: February 19, 1866
Decided: March 5, 1866
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
8-0
Majority
Salmon Portland Chase • Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Stephen Johnson Field • Robert Cooper Grier • Samuel Freeman Miller • Noah Haynes Swayne • James Moore Wayne

UNITED STATES v. HOLLIDAY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 5, 1866. The case was argued before the court on February 19, 1866.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Michigan U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1860s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Chase Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - Indians (other than pertains to state jurisdiction over)
Petitioner: United States
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Distributor, importer, or exporter of alcoholic beverages
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 70 U.S. 407
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Salmon Portland Chase
Who wrote the majority opinion: Samuel Freeman Miller

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 conservative.

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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