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BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION v. UNITED STATES et al.

Term: 1956
Important Dates
Argued: April 29, 1957
Decided: June 10, 1957
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Earl Warren • Charles Whittaker
Dissenting
William Brennan • Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II

BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION v. UNITED STATES et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 10, 1957. The case was argued before the court on April 29, 1957.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Virginia Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Election of remedies: legal remedies available to injured persons or things
Petitioner: foreign (non-American) nongovernmental entity
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 354 U.S. 129
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
Who wrote the majority opinion: Tom Clark

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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External links

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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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