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CHICAGO & SOUTHERN AIR LINES, INC. v. WATERMAN STEAMSHIP CORP. (1948)

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CHICAGO & SOUTHERN AIR LINES, INC. v. WATERMAN STEAMSHIP CORP.
Term: 1947
Important Dates
Argued: November 19, 1947
Decided: February 9, 1948
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Harold Burton • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Stanley Reed • Wiley Rutledge

CHICAGO & SOUTHERN AIR LINES, INC. v. WATERMAN STEAMSHIP CORP. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 9, 1948. The case was argued before the court on November 19, 1947.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

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.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - Judicial review of administrative agency's or administrative official's actions and procedures
  • Petitioner: Airline
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Airline
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 333 U.S. 103
  • 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: 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 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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