Home > Great American Court Cases > Allgeyer v. Louisiana

Legal Citation: 165 U.S. 578 (1897)

Petitioner
E. Allgeyer & Co.

Respondent
State of Louisiana

Petitioner's Claim
That states do not have the right to pass legislation that deprives citizens of their Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process and equal protection.

Chief Lawyer for Petitioner
Branch K. Miller

Chief Lawyer for Respondent
M. J. Cunningham

Justices for the Court
David Josiah Brewer, Henry Billings Brown, William Rufus Day, Melville Weston Fuller, Horace Gray, John Marshall Harlan I, Rufus Wheeler Peckham (writing for the Court), George Shiras, Jr., Edward Douglass White

Justices Dissenting
None

Place
Washington, D.C

Date of Decision
1 March 1897

Decision
Found in favor of Allgeyer and reversed a lower court ruling by finding that due process...