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LOEWE v. LAWLOR (1908)

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LOEWE v. LAWLOR |
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Term: 1907 |
Important Dates |
Argued: December 4, 1907 |
Decided: February 3, 1908 |
Outcome |
Reversed and remanded |
Vote |
9-0 |
Majority |
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White |
LOEWE v. LAWLOR is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 3, 1908. The case was argued before the court on December 4, 1907.
In a 9-0 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 Connecticut U.S. Circuit for the District of Connecticut.
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About the case
- Subject matter: Unions - Union antitrust: legality of anticompetitive union activity
- Petitioner: Manufacturer
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: Union member
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 208 U.S. 274
- How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
- 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: Melville Weston Fuller
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
- United States Supreme Court cases and courts
- Supreme Court of the United States
- History of the Supreme Court
- United States federal courts
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