LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. KENTUCKY (1896) - Ballotpedia

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LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. KENTUCKY

Term: 1895
Important Dates
Argued: January 14, 1896
Decided: March 30, 1896
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras
Concurring
David Josiah Brewer • Edward Douglass White

LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. KENTUCKY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 30, 1896. The case was argued before the court on January 14, 1896.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Kentucky State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - State or local government regulation, especially of business (cf. federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction, federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation)
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State
Respondent state: Kentucky
Citation: 161 U.S. 677
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: Henry Billings Brown

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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