WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. CALL PUBLISHING COMPANY (1901)

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. CALL PUBLISHING COMPANY
	Term: 1900
Important Dates
	Argued: December 4, 1900
	Decided: April 15, 1901
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. CALL PUBLISHING COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 15, 1901. The case was argued before the court on December 4, 1900.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Nebraska State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: Supreme Court jurisdiction or authority on appeal or writ of error, from highest state court
Petitioner: Telephone, telecommunications, or telegraph company
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Publisher, publishing company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 181 U.S. 92
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: David Josiah Brewer

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.