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NEW JERSEY v. ANDERSON (1906)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
NEW JERSEY v. ANDERSON
Term: 1906
Important Dates
Argued: October 19, 1906
Decided: December 10, 1906
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-3
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham

NEW JERSEY v. ANDERSON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 10, 1906. The case was argued before the court on October 19, 1906.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois Northern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1900s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Bankruptcy (except in the context of priority of federal fiscal claims)
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: New Jersey
  • Respondent type: Bankrupt person or business, or business in reorganization
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 203 U.S. 483
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • 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: William Rufus Day

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.

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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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