CUDAHY PACKING COMPANY v. HINKLE, SECRETARY OF STATE, et al. (1929) - Ballotpedia

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CUDAHY PACKING COMPANY v. HINKLE, SECRETARY OF STATE, et al.

Term: 1928
Important Dates
Argued: January 7, 1929
Decided: February 18, 1929
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
Pierce Butler • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter
Dissenting
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Oliver Wendell Holmes

CUDAHY PACKING COMPANY v. HINKLE, SECRETARY OF STATE, et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 18, 1929. The case was argued before the court on January 7, 1929.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Washington Western U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
Petitioner: Package, luggage, container
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Respondent state: Washington
Citation: 278 U.S. 460
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
Who wrote the majority opinion: James Clark McReynolds

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.

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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