FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION v. BEECH-NUT PACKING COMPANY (1922)

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION v. BEECH-NUT PACKING COMPANY
	Term: 1921
Important Dates
	Argued: November 10, 1921
	Decided: January 3, 1922
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	5-4
Majority
	John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Mahlon Pitney • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter
Dissenting
	Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION v. BEECH-NUT PACKING COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 3, 1922. The case was argued before the court on November 10, 1921.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Antitrust (except in the context of mergers and union antitrust)
Petitioner: Federal Trade Commission
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Food, meat packing, or processing company, stockyard
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 257 U.S. 441
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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: William Rufus Day

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.