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BASSING v. CADY

Term: 1907
Important Dates
Argued: January 8, 1908
Decided: February 24, 1908
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

BASSING v. CADY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 24, 1908. The case was argued before the court on January 8, 1908.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Rhode Island State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - subconstitutional fair procedure: fugitive from justice
Petitioner: Arrested person, or pretrial detainee
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Respondent state: Rhode Island
Citation: 208 U.S. 386
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: 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

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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