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BROWN v. WESTERN RAILWAY OF ALABAMA (1949)

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BROWN v. WESTERN RAILWAY OF ALABAMA
Term: 1949
Important Dates
Argued: October 19, 1949
Decided: November 21, 1949
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
6-2
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson

BROWN v. WESTERN RAILWAY OF ALABAMA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 21, 1949. The case was argued before the court on October 19, 1949.

In a 6-2 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 Georgia 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: Economic Activity - Sufficiency of evidence: typically in the context of a jury's determination of compensation for injury or death
  • Petitioner: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Railroad
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 338 U.S. 294
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Hugo Black

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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