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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION v. WESTERN MEAT COMPANY

Term: 1926
Important Dates
Argued: October 25, 1926
Decided: November 23, 1926
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Pierce Butler • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • George Sutherland • Willis Van Devanter
Dissenting
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Harlan Fiske Stone • William Howard Taft

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION v. WESTERN MEAT COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 23, 1926. The case was argued before the court on October 25, 1926.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Appeals, Third 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: 272 U.S. 554
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: James Clark McReynolds

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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