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CAPITOL GREYHOUND LINES ET AL. v. BRICE, COMMISSIONER OF MOTOR VEHICLES (1950)

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CAPITOL GREYHOUND LINES ET AL. v. BRICE, COMMISSIONER OF MOTOR VEHICLES
Term: 1949
Important Dates
Argued: December 5, 1949
Decided: May 15, 1950
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-2
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson

CAPITOL GREYHOUND LINES ET AL. v. BRICE, COMMISSIONER OF MOTOR VEHICLES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 15, 1950. The case was argued before the court on December 5, 1949.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Maryland 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 - state or local government tax
  • Petitioner: Bus or motorized passenger transportation vehicle
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
  • Respondent state: Maryland
  • Citation: 339 U.S. 542
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • 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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