CARROLL et al. v. LANZA, DOING BUSINESS AS LAKE CHARLES ELECTRIC CO. (1955) - Ballotpedia

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CARROLL et al. v. LANZA, DOING BUSINESS AS LAKE CHARLES ELECTRIC CO.

Term: 1954
Important Dates
Argued: March 31, 1955
Decided: June 6, 1955
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Hugo Black • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Earl Warren
Dissenting
Harold Burton • Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II

CARROLL et al. v. LANZA, DOING BUSINESS AS LAKE CHARLES ELECTRIC CO. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 6, 1955. The case was argued before the court on March 31, 1955.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Arkansas Western U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Federalism - miscellaneous federalism
Petitioner: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Construction industry
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 349 U.S. 408
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: William Douglas

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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