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HAMMOND PACKING COMPANY v. STATE OF ARKANSAS

Term: 1908
Important Dates
Argued: February 24, 1908
Decided: February 23, 1909
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Melville Weston Fuller • Rufus Wheeler Peckham

HAMMOND PACKING COMPANY v. STATE OF ARKANSAS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 23, 1909. The case was argued before the court on February 24, 1908.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Arkansas State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Antitrust (except in the context of mergers and union antitrust)
Petitioner: Business, corporation
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State
Respondent state: Arkansas
Citation: 212 U.S. 322
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: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: Edward Douglass White

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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