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UNITED STATES v. LEE (1882)

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UNITED STATES v. LEE
Term: 1882
Important Dates
Argued: October 18, 1882
Decided: December 4, 1882
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller
Dissenting
Joseph Bradley • Horace Gray • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

UNITED STATES v. LEE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 4, 1882. The case was argued before the court on October 18, 1882.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Virginia U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Virginia.

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: Due Process - Due process: takings clause, or other non-constitutional governmental taking of property
  • Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 106 U.S. 196
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
  • 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 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.

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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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