LINDSAY v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SHREVEPORT (1895)

LINDSAY v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SHREVEPORT
	Term: 1894
Important Dates
	Argued: December 19, 1894
	Decided: March 4, 1895
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	8-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

LINDSAY v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SHREVEPORT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 4, 1895. The case was argued before the court on December 19, 1894.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Louisiana U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Louisiana.

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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: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Petitioner state: Louisiana
Respondent type: Bank, savings and loan, credit union, investment company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 156 U.S. 485
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: George Shiras

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.