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UNITED STATES v. TYLER

Term: 1881
Important Dates
Argued: January 20, 1882
Decided: March 13, 1882
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

UNITED STATES v. TYLER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 13, 1882. The case was argued before the court on January 20, 1882.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Claims, Court of Federal Claims.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - military: veteran
Petitioner: United States
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Military personnel, or dependent of, including reservist
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 105 U.S. 244
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: Samuel Freeman Miller

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.

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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