AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC. v. NORTH AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC., et al. (1956)

AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC. v. NORTH AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC., et al.
	Term: 1955
Important Dates
	Argued: March 6, 1956
	Decided: April 23, 1956
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	7-2
Majority
	Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II • Sherman Minton • Earl Warren
Dissenting
	William Douglas • Stanley Reed

AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC. v. NORTH AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC., et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 23, 1956. The case was argued before the court on March 6, 1956.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit (includes the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia but not the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, which has local jurisdiction).

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal and some few state regulation of transportation regulation: airline
Petitioner: Airline
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Airline
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 351 U.S. 79
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
Who wrote the majority opinion: Sherman Minton

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 conservative.