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HARRIS v. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD CO. (1959)

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HARRIS v. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD CO.
Term: 1959
Important Dates
Decided: October 19, 1959
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
5-3
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • Tom Clark • Earl Warren
Concurring
William Douglas
Dissenting
Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II • Charles Whittaker

HARRIS v. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD CO. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 19, 1959.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Ohio State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1950s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Sufficiency of evidence: typically in the context of a jury's determination of compensation for injury or death
  • Petitioner: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Railroad
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 361 U.S. 15
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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.

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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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