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BOYD v. GRAND TRUNK WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY (1949)

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BOYD v. GRAND TRUNK WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY
Term: 1949
Important Dates
Argued: October 11, 1949
Decided: November 7, 1949
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-0
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Concurring
Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson

BOYD v. GRAND TRUNK WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 7, 1949. The case was argued before the court on October 11, 1949.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Michigan State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Vinson Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - Venue
  • Petitioner: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Railroad
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 338 U.S. 263
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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.

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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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