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UNITED STATES v. MACDONALD (1867)

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UNITED STATES v. MACDONALD
Term: 1866
Important Dates
Argued: January 11, 1867
Decided: February 4, 1867
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Salmon Portland Chase • Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Stephen Johnson Field • Robert Cooper Grier • Samuel Freeman Miller • Samuel Nelson • Noah Haynes Swayne • James Moore Wayne

UNITED STATES v. MACDONALD is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 4, 1867. The case was argued before the court on January 11, 1867.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Maine U.S. Circuit for the District of Maine.

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: Economic Activity - Sufficiency of evidence: typically in the context of a jury's determination of compensation for injury or death
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Governmental employee or job applicant
  • Respondent state: Maine
  • Citation: 72 U.S. 647
  • 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: Salmon Portland Chase
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Nathan Clifford

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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