WORKMAN v. NEW YORK CITY, MAYOR, ALDERMEN AND COMMONALTY (1900)

WORKMAN v. NEW YORK CITY, MAYOR, ALDERMEN AND COMMONALTY
	Term: 1900
Important Dates
	Argued: April 17, 1899
	Decided: December 24, 1900
Outcome
	Reversed
Vote
	5-4
Majority
	Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	David Josiah Brewer • Horace Gray • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras

WORKMAN v. NEW YORK CITY, MAYOR, ALDERMEN AND COMMONALTY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 24, 1900. The case was argued before the court on April 17, 1899.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York Southern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, governmental: tort or contract actions by or against government or governmental officials other than defense of criminal actions brought under a civil rights action.
Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Respondent state: New York
Citation: 179 U.S. 552
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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: Edward Douglass White

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.