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INTERNATIONAL TEXTBOOK COMPANY v. PETERSON

Term: 1910
Important Dates
Decided: November 7, 1910
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
8-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Edward Douglass White

INTERNATIONAL TEXTBOOK COMPANY v. PETERSON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 7, 1910.

In an 8-0 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.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1910s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - State or local government regulation, especially of business (cf. federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction, federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation)
Petitioner: Bookstore, newsstand, printer, bindery, purveyor or distributor of books or magazines
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Unidentifiable
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 218 U.S. 664
How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
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 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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