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WILLIAMS v. FEARS

Term: 1900
Important Dates
Argued: October 29, 1900
Decided: December 10, 1900
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-1
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan

WILLIAMS v. FEARS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 10, 1900. The case was argued before the court on October 29, 1900.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Georgia State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
Petitioner: Arrested person, or pretrial detainee
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Respondent state: Georgia
Citation: 179 U.S. 270
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: 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.

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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