UNITED STATES v. MATTHEWS (1899)

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UNITED STATES v. MATTHEWS
Term: 1898
Important Dates
Argued: December 8, 1898
Decided: March 6, 1899
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Joseph McKenna • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Concurring
Henry Billings Brown
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham

UNITED STATES v. MATTHEWS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 6, 1899. The case was argued before the court on December 8, 1898.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Claims, Court of Federal Claims.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Attorneys - Attorneys' and governmental employees' or officials' fees or compensation or licenses
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
  • Respondent state: Florida
  • Citation: 173 U.S. 381
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Edward Douglass White

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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