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UNITED STATES v. WALLER et al.

Term: 1916
Important Dates
Argued: March 14, 1917
Decided: April 9, 1917
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

UNITED STATES v. WALLER et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 9, 1917. The case was argued before the court on March 14, 1917.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Minnesota U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - Indians (other than pertains to state jurisdiction over)
Petitioner: United States
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 243 U.S. 452
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
Who wrote the majority opinion: William Rufus Day

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.

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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