GRAND RIVER DAM AUTHORITY v. GRAND-HYDRO (1948) - Ballotpedia

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GRAND RIVER DAM AUTHORITY v. GRAND-HYDRO

Term: 1948
Important Dates
Argued: October 12, 1948
Decided: November 22, 1948
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
Harold Burton • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Frank Murphy • Wiley Rutledge

GRAND RIVER DAM AUTHORITY v. GRAND-HYDRO is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 22, 1948. The case was argued before the court on October 12, 1948.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Oklahoma State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Vinson Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal and some few state regulation of public utilities regulation: electric power
Petitioner: Local governmental unit other than a county, city, town, township, village, or borough
Petitioner state: Oklahoma
Respondent type: Public utility
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 335 U.S. 359
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
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 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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