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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION et al. v. INLAND WATERWAYS CORP. et al. (1943)

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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION et al. v. INLAND WATERWAYS CORP. et al.
Term: 1942
Important Dates
Argued: January 11, 1943
Decided: June 14, 1943
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-3
Majority
Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Stanley Reed • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Frank Murphy

INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION et al. v. INLAND WATERWAYS CORP. et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 14, 1943. The case was argued before the court on January 11, 1943.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois Northern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Stone Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal and some few state regulations of transportation regulation: boat
  • Petitioner: Interstate Commerce Commission
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Department or Secretary of Agriculture
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 319 U.S. 671
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Harlan Fiske Stone
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Robert Jackson

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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