CINCINNATI, NEW ORLEANS AND TEXAS PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. (1896)

CINCINNATI, NEW ORLEANS AND TEXAS PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.
	Term: 1895
Important Dates
	Argued: January 30, 1896
	Decided: March 30, 1896
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

CINCINNATI, NEW ORLEANS AND TEXAS PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 30, 1896. The case was argued before the court on January 30, 1896.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Georgia U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Georgia.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal or state regulation of transportation regulation: railroad
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Interstate Commerce Commission
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 162 U.S. 184
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: George Shiras

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.