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CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD v. STATE AIRLINES, INC.

Term: 1949
Important Dates
Argued: December 12, 1949
Decided: February 6, 1950
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-2
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Felix Frankfurter • Stanley Reed

CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD v. STATE AIRLINES, INC. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 6, 1950. The case was argued before the court on December 12, 1949.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit (includes the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia but not the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, which has local jurisdiction).

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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: 338 U.S. 572
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: Hugo Black

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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