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UNITED STATES v. KEEHLER (1870)

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UNITED STATES v. KEEHLER
Term: 1869
Important Dates
Decided: February 14, 1870
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 • Samuel Nelson • Noah Haynes Swayne

UNITED STATES v. KEEHLER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 14, 1870.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the North Carolina U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of North Carolina.

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.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federalism - miscellaneous federalism
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
  • Respondent state: North Carolina
  • Citation: 76 U.S. 83
  • 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 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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