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WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. MISSOURI EX REL. GOTTLIEB

Term: 1902
Important Dates
Argued: April 21, 1903
Decided: May 18, 1903
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna
Concurring
David Josiah Brewer
Dissenting
Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. MISSOURI EX REL. GOTTLIEB is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 18, 1903. The case was argued before the court on April 21, 1903.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Missouri State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State
Respondent state: Missouri
Citation: 190 U.S. 412
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: Joseph McKenna

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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