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FORD MOTOR CO. v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1948
Important Dates
Argued: October 11, 1948
Decided: November 15, 1948
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
4-3
Majority
Harold Burton • Felix Frankfurter • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Wiley Rutledge

FORD MOTOR CO. v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 15, 1948. The case was argued before the court on October 11, 1948.

In a 4-3 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 Indiana Indiana Northern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Antitrust (except in the context of mergers and union antitrust)
Petitioner: Auto manufacturer
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 335 U.S. 303
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
Who wrote the majority opinion: Felix Frankfurter

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.

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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