CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD v. DELTA AIR LINES, INC. (1961)

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CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD v. DELTA AIR LINES, INC.
Term: 1960
Important Dates
Argued: April 27, 1961
Decided: June 12, 1961
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Potter Stewart • Earl Warren
Dissenting
Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II • Charles Whittaker

CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD v. DELTA AIR LINES, INC. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 12, 1961. The case was argued before the court on April 27, 1961.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal and some few state regulation of transportation regulation: airline
  • Petitioner: Civil Aeronautics Board
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Airline
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 367 U.S. 316
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Earl Warren

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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