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DENVER UNION STOCK YARD CO. v. PRODUCERS LIVESTOCK MARKETING ASSOCIATION (1958)

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DENVER UNION STOCK YARD CO. v. PRODUCERS LIVESTOCK MARKETING ASSOCIATION
Term: 1957
Important Dates
Argued: March 10, 1958
Decided: April 28, 1958
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Earl Warren
Concurring
Tom Clark
Dissenting
Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II • Charles Whittaker

DENVER UNION STOCK YARD CO. v. PRODUCERS LIVESTOCK MARKETING ASSOCIATION is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 28, 1958. The case was argued before the court on March 10, 1958.

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, Tenth Circuit.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Antitrust (except in the context of mergers and union antitrust)
  • Petitioner: Food, meat packing, or processing company, stockyard
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Food, meat packing, or processing company, stockyard
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 356 U.S. 282
  • 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 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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