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LAKE SHORE AND MICHIGAN SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. SMITH

Term: 1898
Important Dates
Argued: March 14, 1899
Decided: April 17, 1899
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • Joseph McKenna

LAKE SHORE AND MICHIGAN SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. SMITH is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 17, 1899. The case was argued before the court on March 14, 1899.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Michigan State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal or state regulation of transportation regulation: railroad
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Consumer, consumer organization
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 173 U.S. 684
How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
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: Rufus Wheeler Peckham

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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