YAZOO AND MISSISSIPPI RAILROAD COMPANY v. ADAMS (1901) - Ballotpedia

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YAZOO AND MISSISSIPPI RAILROAD COMPANY v. ADAMS

Term: 1900
Important Dates
Decided: January 7, 1901
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

YAZOO AND MISSISSIPPI RAILROAD COMPANY v. ADAMS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 7, 1901.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Mississippi State Trial Court.

About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: dismissed or affirmed for want of a substantial or properly presented federal question, or a nonsuit
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Governmental employee or job applicant
Respondent state: Mississippi
Citation: 180 U.S. 41
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: Henry Billings Brown

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 conservative.

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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