Murdock v. City of Memphis
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Murdock v. Memphis | ||||||||||
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Supreme Court of the United States | ||||||||||
Argued October Term, 1874 Decided January 11, 1874 |
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Holding | ||||||||||
The Supreme Court will not review state court decisions resting on an adequate state ground. | ||||||||||
Court membership | ||||||||||
Chief Justice: Morrison Waite Associate Justices: Nathan Clifford, Noah Haynes Swayne, Samuel Freeman Miller, David Davis, Stephen Johnson Field, William Strong, Joseph Philo Bradley, Ward Hunt |
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Majority by: Miller |
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Laws applied | ||||||||||
U.S. Const. Art. III, ยง 2. and Section 25 of Judiciary Act of 1789 as amended in 1867 |
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William Tod Otto argued the case on behalf of the City of Memphis. The case having been reargued, as well as argued originally, before the appointment of the Chief Justice Waite, who took no part in the judgment.