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Legal Citation: 223 U.S. 118 (1912)

Appellant
Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Company

Appellee
State of Oregon

Appellant's Claim
That the state of Oregon was no longer a republican form of government, since it gave citizens the right to pass laws by initiative and referendum.

Chief Lawyer for Appellant
E. S. Pillsbury

Chief Lawyers for Appellee
A. M. Crawford, Jackson H. Ralston

Justices for the Court
William Rufus Day, John Marshall Harlan I, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Evans Hughes, Joseph Rucker Lamar, Horace Harmon Lurton, Joseph McKenna, Willis Van Devanter, Edward Douglass White (writing for the Court)

Justices Dissenting
None

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
2 February 1912

Decision
The Court denied it had jurisdiction and dismissed...