CITY OF WORCESTER v. WORCESTER CONSOLIDATED STREET RAILWAY COMPANY (1905)

CITY OF WORCESTER v. WORCESTER CONSOLIDATED STREET RAILWAY COMPANY
	Term: 1904
Important Dates
	Argued: January 23, 1905
	Decided: February 20, 1905
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

CITY OF WORCESTER v. WORCESTER CONSOLIDATED STREET RAILWAY COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 20, 1905. The case was argued before the court on January 23, 1905.

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

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - State or local government regulation, especially of business (cf. federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction, federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation)
Petitioner: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Petitioner state: Massachusetts
Respondent type: Railroad
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 196 U.S. 539
How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
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: Rufus Wheeler Peckham

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.