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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION v. MOTION PICTURE ADVERTISING SERVICE CO., INC. (1953)

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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION v. MOTION PICTURE ADVERTISING SERVICE CO., INC.
Term: 1952
Important Dates
Argued: December 8, 1952
Decided: February 2, 1953
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-2
Majority
Hugo Black • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Harold Burton • Felix Frankfurter

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION v. MOTION PICTURE ADVERTISING SERVICE CO., INC. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 2, 1953. The case was argued before the court on December 8, 1952.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

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

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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: Movie, play, pictorial representation, theatrical production, actor, or exhibitor or distributor of
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 344 U.S. 392
  • 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: William Douglas

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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