FROST & FROST TRUCKING CO. v. RAILROAD COMMISSION OF CALIFORNIA (1926) - Ballotpedia

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FROST & FROST TRUCKING CO. v. RAILROAD COMMISSION OF CALIFORNIA

Term: 1925
Important Dates
Argued: April 21, 1926
Decided: June 7, 1926
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Pierce Butler • Edward Terry Sanford • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter
Dissenting
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds

FROST & FROST TRUCKING CO. v. RAILROAD COMMISSION OF CALIFORNIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 7, 1926. The case was argued before the court on April 21, 1926.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Due Process - Due process: takings clause, or other non-constitutional governmental taking of property
Petitioner: Trucking company, or motor carrier
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State commission, board, committee, or authority
Respondent state: California
Citation: 271 U.S. 583
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: William Howard Taft
Who wrote the majority opinion: George Sutherland

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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