BACON v. WALKER (1907)

BACON v. WALKER
	Term: 1906
Important Dates
	Argued: January 10, 1907
	Decided: February 4, 1907
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	7-2
Majority
	William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	David Josiah Brewer • Rufus Wheeler Peckham

BACON v. WALKER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 4, 1907. The case was argued before the court on January 10, 1907.

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

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - State or local government regulation, especially of business (cf. federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction, federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation)
Petitioner: Farmer, farm worker, or farm organization
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 204 U.S. 311
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.