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WILKES COUNTY v. COLER (1901)

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WILKES COUNTY v. COLER |
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Term: 1900 |
Important Dates |
Argued: October 19, 1900 |
Decided: March 18, 1901 |
Outcome |
Certification to or from a lower court |
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 |
WILKES COUNTY v. COLER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 18, 1901. The case was argued before the court on October 19, 1900.
The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the North Carolina U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of North Carolina.
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About the case
- Subject matter: Federalism - federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction
- Petitioner: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
- Petitioner state: North Carolina
- Respondent type: Stockholder, shareholder, or bondholder
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 180 U.S. 506
- How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
- 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: John Marshall Harlan
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.
See also
- United States Supreme Court cases and courts
- Supreme Court of the United States
- History of the Supreme Court
- United States federal courts
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