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THE BENITO ESTENGER (1900)
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| THE BENITO ESTENGER |
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| Term: 1899 |
| Important Dates |
| Argued: January 11, 1900 |
| Decided: March 5, 1900 |
| Outcome |
| Affirmed (includes modified) |
| Vote |
| 6-3 |
| Majority |
| David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna |
| Dissenting |
| Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White |
THE BENITO ESTENGER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 5, 1900. The case was argued before the court on January 11, 1900.
In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Florida Southern U.S. District Court.
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About the case
- Subject matter: Due Process - Due process: takings clause, or other non-constitutional governmental taking of property
- Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: United States
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 176 U.S. 568
- 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: Melville Weston Fuller
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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