ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. MCKENDREE (1906) - Ballotpedia

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ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. MCKENDREE

Term: 1906
Important Dates
Decided: December 17, 1906
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White
Concurring
Joseph McKenna

ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. MCKENDREE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 17, 1906.

In a 9-0 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 Kentucky State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal or state regulation of transportation regulation: railroad
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 203 U.S. 514
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: William Rufus Day

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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