UNITED STATES v. UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY (December 13, 1897) - Ballotpedia

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UNITED STATES v. UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY

Term: 1897
Important Dates
Argued: December 2, 1897
Decided: December 13, 1897
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
8-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

UNITED STATES v. UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 13, 1897. The case was argued before the court on December 2, 1897.

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

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: certification (cf. objection to reason for denial of certiorari or appeal)
Petitioner: United States
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Railroad
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 168 U.S. 505
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: Melville Weston Fuller

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 conservative.

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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