INTERNATIONAL SHOE COMPANY v. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION (1930) - Ballotpedia

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INTERNATIONAL SHOE COMPANY v. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

Term: 1929
Important Dates
Argued: December 2, 1929
Decided: January 6, 1930
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Pierce Butler • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter
Dissenting
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Harlan Fiske Stone

INTERNATIONAL SHOE COMPANY v. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 6, 1930. The case was argued before the court on December 2, 1929.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

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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: Federal Trade Commission
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 280 U.S. 291
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
Who wrote the majority opinion: George Sutherland

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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