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HARTFORD-EMPIRE CO. et al. v. UNITED STATES (April 2, 1945)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
HARTFORD-EMPIRE CO. et al. v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1944
Important Dates
Decided: April 2, 1945
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
4-2
Majority
Felix Frankfurter • Stanley Reed • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone
Dissenting
Hugo Black • Wiley Rutledge

HARTFORD-EMPIRE CO. et al. v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 2, 1945.

In a 4-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Ohio Northern U.S. District Court.

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

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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: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 324 U.S. 570
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Harlan Fiske Stone
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Owen Josephus Roberts

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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