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UNITED STATES v. NORTH CAROLINA (1890)

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UNITED STATES v. NORTH CAROLINA
Term: 1889
Important Dates
Argued: April 2, 1890
Decided: May 19, 1890
Vote
6-3
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Joseph Bradley • David Josiah Brewer • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
Dissenting
Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan • Samuel Freeman Miller

UNITED STATES v. NORTH CAROLINA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 19, 1890. The case was argued before the court on April 2, 1890.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a 6-3 ruling.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federalism - national supremacy: miscellaneous
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: North Carolina
  • Citation: 136 U.S. 211
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • 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: Horace Gray

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 unspecifiable.

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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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