BLAIR v. CITY OF CHICAGO. (1906)

BLAIR v. CITY OF CHICAGO.
	Term: 1905
Important Dates
	Argued: January 11, 1906
	Decided: March 12, 1906
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	6-3
Majority
	William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Joseph McKenna

BLAIR v. CITY OF CHICAGO. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 12, 1906. The case was argued before the court on January 11, 1906.

In a 6-3 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 Illinois U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Illinois.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - State or local government regulation, especially of business (cf. federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction, federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation)
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Respondent state: Illinois
Citation: 201 U.S. 400
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: William Rufus Day

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 unspecifiable.