DELTA AIR LINES, INC. v. SUMMERFIELD, POSTMASTER GENERAL, et al. (1954)

DELTA AIR LINES, INC. v. SUMMERFIELD, POSTMASTER GENERAL, et al.
	Term: 1953
Important Dates
	Argued: December 9, 1953
	Decided: February 1, 1954
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Earl Warren

DELTA AIR LINES, INC. v. SUMMERFIELD, POSTMASTER GENERAL, et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 1, 1954. The case was argued before the court on December 9, 1953.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed 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: Airline
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Postal Service and Post Office, or Postmaster General, or Postmaster
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 347 U.S. 74
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: William Douglas

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.