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LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. CENTRAL STOCK YARDS COMPANY (1909)

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LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. CENTRAL STOCK YARDS COMPANY
Term: 1908
Important Dates
Argued: December 10, 1908
Decided: January 25, 1909
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody

LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. CENTRAL STOCK YARDS COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 25, 1909. The case was argued before the court on December 10, 1908.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1900s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Due Process - Due process: takings clause, or other non-constitutional governmental taking of property
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Food, meat packing, or processing company, stockyard
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 212 U.S. 132
  • 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: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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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