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PAGE v. BURNSTINE

Term: 1880
Important Dates
Argued: January 4, 1881
Decided: January 24, 1881
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
6-1
Majority
Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan • Samuel Freeman Miller • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods
Dissenting
Joseph Bradley

PAGE v. BURNSTINE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 24, 1881. The case was argued before the court on January 4, 1881.

In a 6-1 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 Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

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About the case

Subject matter: Private Action - Civil procedure
Petitioner: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Creditor, including institution appearing as such; e.g., a finance company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 102 U.S. 664
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
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 unspecifiable.

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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