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LAMBERT v. YELLOWLEY et al.

Term: 1926
Important Dates
Argued: April 30, 1926
Decided: November 29, 1926
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Edward Terry Sanford • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter
Dissenting
Pierce Butler • James Clark McReynolds • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland

LAMBERT v. YELLOWLEY et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 29, 1926. The case was argued before the court on April 30, 1926.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York Southern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Federalism - national supremacy: commodities
Petitioner: physician, MD or DO, dentist, or medical society
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Respondent state: United States
Citation: 272 U.S. 581
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: Louis Dembitz Brandeis

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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