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AFFOLDER v. NEW YORK, CHICAGO & ST. LOUIS RAILROAD CO. (1950)
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| AFFOLDER v. NEW YORK, CHICAGO & ST. LOUIS RAILROAD CO. |
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| Term: 1949 |
| Important Dates |
| Argued: November 18, 1949 |
| Decided: March 13, 1950 |
| Outcome |
| Reversed |
| Vote |
| 5-3 |
| Majority |
| Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Sherman Minton • Frederick Vinson |
| Dissenting |
| Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Stanley Reed |
AFFOLDER v. NEW YORK, CHICAGO & ST. LOUIS RAILROAD CO. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 13, 1950. The case was argued before the court on November 18, 1949.
In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Missouri Missouri Eastern U.S. District Court.
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About the case
- Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
- Petitioner: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: Railroad
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 339 U.S. 96
- How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
- What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
- Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
- Who wrote the majority opinion: Tom Clark
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 liberal.
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