GAST REALTY AND INVESTMENT COMPANY v. SCHNEIDER GRANITE COMPANY (1916)

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GAST REALTY AND INVESTMENT COMPANY v. SCHNEIDER GRANITE COMPANY
Term: 1915
Important Dates
Argued: January 21, 1916
Decided: January 31, 1916
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-0
Majority
Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

GAST REALTY AND INVESTMENT COMPANY v. SCHNEIDER GRANITE COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 31, 1916. The case was argued before the court on January 21, 1916.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Missouri State Trial Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
  • Petitioner: Bank, savings and loan, credit union, investment company
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Government contractor
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 240 U.S. 55
  • 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: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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