CARTER v. ATLANTA & ST. ANDREWS BAY RAILWAY CO. (1949) - Ballotpedia

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CARTER v. ATLANTA & ST. ANDREWS BAY RAILWAY CO.

Term: 1949
Important Dates
Argued: October 14, 1949
Decided: December 19, 1949
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-2
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Felix Frankfurter • Stanley Reed

CARTER v. ATLANTA & ST. ANDREWS BAY RAILWAY CO. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 19, 1949. The case was argued before the court on October 14, 1949.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Alabama Alabama Middle U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
Petitioner: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Railroad
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 338 U.S. 430
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: 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.

See also

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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