FIFTH AVENUE COACH COMPANY v. CITY OF NEW YORK (1911)

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FIFTH AVENUE COACH COMPANY v. CITY OF NEW YORK
Term: 1910
Important Dates
Argued: April 27, 1911
Decided: May 29, 1911
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

FIFTH AVENUE COACH COMPANY v. CITY OF NEW YORK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 29, 1911. The case was argued before the court on April 27, 1911.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1910s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the White Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: First Amendment - Commercial speech, excluding attorneys
  • Petitioner: Business, corporation
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
  • Respondent state: New York
  • Citation: 221 U.S. 467
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Joseph McKenna

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 conservative.

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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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