WHITNEY v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BRATTLEBORO (1880) - Ballotpedia

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WHITNEY v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BRATTLEBORO

Term: 1880
Important Dates
Argued: December 8, 1880
Decided: December 20, 1880
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan • Ward Hunt • Samuel Freeman Miller • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite

WHITNEY v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BRATTLEBORO is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 20, 1880. The case was argued before the court on December 8, 1880.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Vermont State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
Petitioner: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Bank, savings and loan, credit union, investment company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 154 U.S. 664
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: Morrison Waite
Who wrote the majority opinion: Morrison Waite

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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