FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION v. MORTON SALT CO. (1948) - Ballotpedia

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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION v. MORTON SALT CO.

Term: 1947
Important Dates
Argued: March 10, 1948
Decided: May 3, 1948
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
7-2
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Wiley Rutledge • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION v. MORTON SALT CO. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 3, 1948. The case was argued before the court on March 10, 1948.

In a 7-2 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.

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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: 334 U.S. 37
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

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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