FIRST IOWA HYDRO-ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION. STATE OF IOWA, INTERVENOR (1946)

FIRST IOWA HYDRO-ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION. STATE OF IOWA, INTERVENOR
	Term: 1945
Important Dates
	Argued: March 8, 1946
	Decided: April 29, 1946
Outcome
	Reversed
Vote
	6-1
Majority
	Hugo Black • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Wiley Rutledge
Dissenting
	Felix Frankfurter

FIRST IOWA HYDRO-ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION. STATE OF IOWA, INTERVENOR is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 29, 1946. The case was argued before the court on March 8, 1946.

In a 6-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit (includes the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia but not the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, which has local jurisdiction).

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal and some few state regulation of public utilities regulation: electric power
Petitioner: Holder of a license or permit, or applicant therefor
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Federal Power Commission
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 328 U.S. 152
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Harlan Fiske Stone
Who wrote the majority opinion: Harold Burton

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.