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CHAMPLIN REFINING CO. v. UNITED STATES ET AL. (1946)
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| CHAMPLIN REFINING CO. v. UNITED STATES ET AL. |
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| Term: 1946 |
| Important Dates |
| Argued: November 8, 1945 |
| Decided: November 18, 1946 |
| Outcome |
| Affirmed (includes modified) |
| Vote |
| 5-4 |
| Majority |
| Hugo Black • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Wiley Rutledge • Frederick Vinson |
| Dissenting |
| Harold Burton • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Stanley Reed |
CHAMPLIN REFINING CO. v. UNITED STATES ET AL. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 18, 1946. The case was argued before the court on November 8, 1945.
In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Oklahoma Oklahoma Western U.S. District 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 - Federal and some few state regulation of transportation regulation: pipeline (cf. federal public utilities regulation: gas pipeline)
- Petitioner: Pipe line company
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: United States
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 329 U.S. 29
- 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: Robert Jackson
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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