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CHICAGO & EASTERN ILLINOIS RAILROAD CO. v. INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF ILLINOIS et al. (1932)

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CHICAGO & EASTERN ILLINOIS RAILROAD CO. v. INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF ILLINOIS et al.
Term: 1931
Important Dates
Argued: December 1, 1931
Decided: January 4, 1932
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • James Clark McReynolds • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • Willis Van Devanter

CHICAGO & EASTERN ILLINOIS RAILROAD CO. v. INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF ILLINOIS et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 4, 1932. The case was argued before the court on December 1, 1931.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1930s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Hughes Court, click here.

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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: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State commission, board, committee, or authority
  • Respondent state: Illinois
  • Citation: 284 U.S. 296
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Charles Evans Hughes
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: George Sutherland

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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