GENERAL INVESTMENT COMPANY v. NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY (1926) - Ballotpedia

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GENERAL INVESTMENT COMPANY v. NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY

Term: 1925
Important Dates
Argued: April 27, 1926
Decided: May 24, 1926
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • Harlan Fiske Stone • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

GENERAL INVESTMENT COMPANY v. NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 24, 1926. The case was argued before the court on April 27, 1926.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Ohio Northern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: dismissed or affirmed for want of a substantial or properly presented federal question, or a nonsuit
Petitioner: Bank, savings and loan, credit union, investment company
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Railroad
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 271 U.S. 228
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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: Willis Van Devanter

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.

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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