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WISCONSIN v. DULUTH (1878)

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WISCONSIN v. DULUTH
Term: 1877
Important Dates
Argued: January 16, 1878
Decided: February 11, 1878
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan • Ward Hunt • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite

WISCONSIN v. DULUTH is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 11, 1878. The case was argued before the court on January 16, 1878.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1870s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federalism - national supremacy: natural resources (cf. natural resources - environmental protection)
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Wisconsin
  • Respondent type: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
  • Respondent state: Minnesota
  • Citation: 96 U.S. 379
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Samuel Freeman Miller

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.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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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