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UNITED STATES v. LE BRIS (1887)

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UNITED STATES v. LE BRIS |
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Term: 1886 |
Important Dates |
Decided: April 18, 1887 |
Outcome |
Certification to or from a lower court |
Vote |
8-0 |
Majority |
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite |
UNITED STATES v. LE BRIS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 18, 1887.
The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Minnesota U.S. Circuit for the District of Minnesota.
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.
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: 121 U.S. 278
- How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
- What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
- Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
- Who wrote the majority opinion: Morrison Waite
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.
See also
- United States Supreme Court cases and courts
- Supreme Court of the United States
- History of the Supreme Court
- United States federal courts
- Ballotpedia's Robe & Gavel newsletter
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