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INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY v. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS (1918)

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INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY v. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Term: 1917
Important Dates
Argued: October 19, 1917
Decided: March 4, 1918
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY v. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 4, 1918. The case was argued before the court on October 19, 1917.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
  • Petitioner: Business, corporation
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Massachusetts
  • Citation: 246 U.S. 135
  • 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: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Willis Van Devanter

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.

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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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