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DIEHL v. LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD CO. et al. (1955)

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DIEHL v. LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD CO. et al.
Term: 1954
Important Dates
Argued: February 28, 1955
Decided: March 14, 1955
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-1
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Sherman Minton • Earl Warren
Dissenting
Stanley Reed

DIEHL v. LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD CO. et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 14, 1955. The case was argued before the court on February 28, 1955.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Pennsylvania Eastern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1950s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - military: veteran
  • Petitioner: Veteran
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Railroad
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 348 U.S. 960
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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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