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CALIFORNIA v. ZOOK ET AL.

Term: 1948
Important Dates
Argued: February 8, 1949
Decided: April 25, 1949
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Hugo Black • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Wiley Rutledge • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Harold Burton • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson

CALIFORNIA v. ZOOK ET AL. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 25, 1949. The case was argued before the court on February 8, 1949.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California 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.

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: State
Petitioner state: California
Respondent type: Business, corporation
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 336 U.S. 725
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: Frank Murphy

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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