INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION v. BRIMSON (1894) - Ballotpedia

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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION v. BRIMSON

Term: 1893
Important Dates
Argued: April 16, 1894
Decided: May 26, 1894
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
5-3
Majority
Henry Billings Brown • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
David Josiah Brewer • Melville Weston Fuller • Howell Edmunds Jackson

INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION v. BRIMSON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 26, 1894. The case was argued before the court on April 16, 1894.

In a 5-3 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 Illinois U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Illinois.

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About the case

Subject matter: Privacy - Freedom of Information Act and related federal or state statutes or regulations
Petitioner: Interstate Commerce Commission
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Unidentifiable
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 154 U.S. 447
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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: John Marshall Harlan

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.

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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