BOARD OF TRADE OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO et al. v. UNITED STATES (1918) - Ballotpedia

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BOARD OF TRADE OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO et al. v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1917
Important Dates
Argued: December 18, 1917
Decided: March 4, 1918
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

BOARD OF TRADE OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO et al. v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 4, 1918. The case was argued before the court on December 18, 1917.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois Northern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Antitrust (except in the context of mergers and union antitrust)
Petitioner: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Petitioner state: Illinois
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 246 U.S. 231
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: Louis Dembitz Brandeis

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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