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AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS, INC. ET AL. v. UNITED STATES ET AL. (1953)

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AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS, INC. ET AL. v. UNITED STATES ET AL.
Term: 1952
Important Dates
Argued: November 17, 1952
Decided: January 12, 1953
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Douglas

AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS, INC. ET AL. v. UNITED STATES ET AL. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 12, 1953. The case was argued before the court on November 17, 1952.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Alabama Alabama Northern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1950s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Vinson Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal and some few state regulation of transportation regulation:truck, or motor carrier
  • Petitioner: Trucking company, or motor carrier
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 344 U.S. 298
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Stanley Reed

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.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024
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