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CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY COMPANY v. NANCY J. SCHWALB AND WILLIAM MCGLONE (1989)

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CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY COMPANY v. NANCY J. SCHWALB AND WILLIAM MCGLONE
Term: 1989
Important Dates
Argued: October 3, 1989
Decided: November 28, 1989
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
William Brennan • Anthony Kennedy • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • Byron White
Concurring
Harry Blackmun • Thurgood Marshall • Sandra Day O'Connor • John Paul Stevens

CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY COMPANY v. NANCY J. SCHWALB AND WILLIAM MCGLONE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 28, 1989. The case was argued before the court on October 3, 1989.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Virginia State Trial Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Election of remedies: legal remedies available to injured persons or things
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 493 U.S. 40
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Byron White

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 conservative.

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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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