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UNITED STATES v. TYNEN (1871)

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UNITED STATES v. TYNEN
Term: 1870
Important Dates
Decided: April 10, 1871
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
7-0
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Stephen Johnson Field • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne

UNITED STATES v. TYNEN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 10, 1871.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the California U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of California.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1870s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Chase Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: immigration (cf. immigration and naturalization)
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Alien, person subject to a denaturalization proceeding, or one whose citizenship is revoked
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 78 U.S. 88
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • 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: Stephen Johnson Field

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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