Your feedback ensures we stay focused on the facts that matter to you most—take our survey.

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION v. CEMENT INSTITUTE ET AL. (1948)

From Ballotpedia
Jump to: navigation, search

Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION v. CEMENT INSTITUTE ET AL.
Term: 1947
Important Dates
Argued: October 20, 1947
Decided: April 26, 1948
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
6-1
Majority
Hugo Black • Felix Frankfurter • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Wiley Rutledge • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Harold Burton

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION v. CEMENT INSTITUTE ET AL. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 26, 1948. The case was argued before the court on October 20, 1947.

In a 6-1 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, Seventh Circuit.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Vinson Court, click here.

[1]

About the case

  • Subject matter: Due Process - Due process: miscellaneous (cf. loyalty oath), the residual code
  • Petitioner: Federal Trade Commission
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Construction industry
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 333 U.S. 683
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Hugo Black

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.

See also

External links

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
Retrieved from "https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=FEDERAL_TRADE_COMMISSION_v._CEMENT_INSTITUTE_ET_AL._(1948)&oldid=9491285"