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HOLOPHANE CO., INC., v. UNITED STATES. (1956)

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HOLOPHANE CO., INC., v. UNITED STATES.
Term: 1956
Important Dates
Argued: November 5, 1956
Decided: November 13, 1956
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Stanley Reed • Earl Warren

HOLOPHANE CO., INC., v. UNITED STATES. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 13, 1956. The case was argued before the court on November 5, 1956.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Ohio Southern U.S. District 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 - Antitrust (except in the context of mergers and union antitrust)
  • Petitioner: Manufacturer
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 352 U.S. 903
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • 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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