SARLLS v. UNITED STATES (1894)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
SARLLS v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1893
Important Dates
Decided: April 9, 1894
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Howell Edmunds Jackson • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

SARLLS v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 9, 1894.

In a 9-0 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 Arkansas Western U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: narcotics includes regulation and prohibition of alcohol
  • Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 152 U.S. 570
  • 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 liberal.

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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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