KERN RIVER COMPANY et al. v. UNITED STATES (1921) - Ballotpedia

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KERN RIVER COMPANY et al. v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1921
Important Dates
Argued: October 20, 1921
Decided: November 21, 1921
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

KERN RIVER COMPANY et al. v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 21, 1921. The case was argued before the court on October 20, 1921.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California Northern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Natural resources - environmental protection (cf. national supremacy: natural resources, national supremacy: pollution)
Petitioner: Business, corporation
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 257 U.S. 147
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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: 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 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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