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UNITED STATES v. VAN IDERSTINE (1898)

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UNITED STATES v. VAN IDERSTINE
Term: 1898
Important Dates
Argued: November 8, 1898
Decided: December 5, 1898
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
4-4
Equally divided vote
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. VAN IDERSTINE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 5, 1898. The case was argued before the court on November 8, 1898.

In a 4-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Claims, Court of Federal Claims.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: -
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Unidentifiable
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 172 U.S. 642
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Equally divided vote
  • Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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.

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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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