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UNITED STATES v. JUNG AH LUNG (1888)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
UNITED STATES v. JUNG AH LUNG
Term: 1887
Important Dates
Decided: February 13, 1888
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Horace Gray • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite
Dissenting
Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

UNITED STATES v. JUNG AH LUNG is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 13, 1888.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - immigration and naturalization: permanent residence
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Alien, person subject to a denaturalization proceeding, or one whose citizenship is revoked
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 124 U.S. 621
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Samuel Blatchford

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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