ARKADELPHIA MILLING COMPANY v. ST. LOUIS SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY et al. (1919)

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ARKADELPHIA MILLING COMPANY v. ST. LOUIS SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY et al.
Term: 1918
Important Dates
Decided: March 3, 1919
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

ARKADELPHIA MILLING COMPANY v. ST. LOUIS SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 3, 1919.

In a 9-0 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 Arkansas Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: review of non-final order
  • Petitioner: Shipper, including importer and exporter
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Railroad
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 249 U.S. 134
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Mahlon Pitney

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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