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UNITED STATES v. PLOWMAN (1910)

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UNITED STATES v. PLOWMAN
Term: 1909
Important Dates
Argued: January 20, 1910
Decided: February 21, 1910
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-1
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Horace Harmon Lurton • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Joseph McKenna

UNITED STATES v. PLOWMAN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 21, 1910. The case was argued before the court on January 20, 1910.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Idaho U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1900s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Natural resources - environmental protection (cf. national supremacy: natural resources, national supremacy: pollution)
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Defendant
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 216 U.S. 372
  • 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: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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