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UNITED STATES v. MONTANA LUMBER AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY

Term: 1904
Important Dates
Argued: January 12, 1905
Decided: February 20, 1905
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
9-0
Majority
Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White
Concurring
David Josiah Brewer

UNITED STATES v. MONTANA LUMBER AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 20, 1905. The case was argued before the court on January 12, 1905.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Montana U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal and some few state regulations of transportation regulation: boat
Petitioner: United States
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Forest products, lumber, or logging company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 196 U.S. 573
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
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: Joseph McKenna

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

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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