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WESTERN LOAN AND SAVINGS COMPANY v. BUTTE AND BOSTON CONSOLIDATED MINING COMPANY (1908)

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WESTERN LOAN AND SAVINGS COMPANY v. BUTTE AND BOSTON CONSOLIDATED MINING COMPANY
Term: 1907
Important Dates
Decided: June 1, 1908
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

WESTERN LOAN AND SAVINGS COMPANY v. BUTTE AND BOSTON CONSOLIDATED MINING COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 1, 1908.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Montana U.S. Circuit Court for (all) District(s) of Montana.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - Miscellaneous judicial power, especially diversity jurisdiction
  • Petitioner: Bank, savings and loan, credit union, investment company
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Mining company or miner, excluding coal, oil, or pipeline company
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 210 U.S. 368
  • 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: 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.

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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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