March 4, 1874 – March 23, 1888 (14 years, 19 days)
Seat
Old Senate Chamber Washington, D.C.
No. of positions
9
Waite Court decisions
The Waite Court refers to the Supreme Court of the United States from 1874 to 1888, when Morrison Waite served as the seventh Chief Justice of the United States. Waite succeeded Salmon P. Chase as Chief Justice after the latter's death. Waite served as Chief Justice until his death, at which point Melville Fuller was nominated and confirmed as Waite's successor.
The Waite Court presided over the end of the Reconstruction Era, and the start of the Gilded Age. It also played an important role during the constitutional crisis that arose following the 1876 presidential election, as five of its members served on the Electoral Commission that Congress created to settle the dispute over who won the Electoral College vote.
During Waite's tenure, the jurisdiction of federal circuit courts (as against that of the State courts) was expanded by the Jurisdiction and Removal Act of 1875, which gave the federal judiciary full jurisdiction over federal questions. As a result of the change, caseloads in the federal courts grew considerably.
The WaiteCourt refers to the Supreme Court of the United States from 1874 to 1888, when Morrison Waite served as the seventh Chief Justice of the United...
United States from 1874 until his death in 1888. During his tenure, the WaiteCourt took a narrow interpretation of federal authority related to laws and...
of the court'; pl. amici curiae) is an individual or organization that is not a party to a legal case, but that is permitted to assist a court by offering...
The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought in Appomattox County, Virginia, on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American...
original text related to this article: WaiteCourt portal "History of the Court: The WaiteCourt 1874-1888". Supreme Court Historical Society. Retrieved 4 May...
justice The WaiteCourt era, under the leadership of Morrison Waite, lasted from March 4, 1874 to March 23, 1888; 15 justices served during this court. Seniority...
Melville Fuller as the successor to Chief Justice Waite. On Fuller's accession to the office, the Fuller Court consisted of associate justices: Samuel Freeman...
The demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States encompass the gender, ethnicity, and religious, geographic, and economic backgrounds of the...
prior to being granted U.S. citizenship in 1924. Criminal law in the WaiteCourt The phrase ex parte, meaning for or by one side only, has traditionally...
the American Civil War. In the Reconstruction era, the Chase, Waite, and Fuller Courts (1864–1910) interpreted the new Civil War amendments to the Constitution...
tenure of Morrison Waite as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (March 4, 1874 through March 23, 1888), the Supreme Court heard an unprecedented...
Siebold, 100 U.S. 371 (1879), was a decision of the United States Supreme Court concerning the Appointments Clause. Text of Ex parte Siebold, 100 U.S. 371...
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traditional designations of the court cards. The deck was followed by the release of The Key to the Tarot, also by Waite, in 1910. The Thoth deck, first...
U.S. 3 (1883), were a group of five landmark cases in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments...
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