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WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. BOROUGH OF NEW HOPE

Term: 1902
Important Dates
Argued: December 2, 1902
Decided: January 5, 1903
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • George Shiras
Dissenting
Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. BOROUGH OF NEW HOPE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 5, 1903. The case was argued before the court on December 2, 1902.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Pennsylvania State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
Petitioner: Telephone, telecommunications, or telegraph company
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Respondent state: Pennsylvania
Citation: 187 U.S. 419
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: 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 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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