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FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION v. OREGON et al.

Term: 1954
Important Dates
Argued: March 2, 1955
Decided: June 6, 1955
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-1
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Felix Frankfurter • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Earl Warren
Dissenting
William Douglas

FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION v. OREGON et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 6, 1955. The case was argued before the court on March 2, 1955.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Natural resources - environmental protection (cf. national supremacy: natural resources, national supremacy: pollution)
Petitioner: Federal Power Commission
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State
Respondent state: Oregon
Citation: 349 U.S. 435
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: Harold Burton

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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