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LUCKING v. DETROIT & CLEVELAND NAVIGATION COMPANY (1924)
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| LUCKING v. DETROIT & CLEVELAND NAVIGATION COMPANY |
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| Term: 1923 |
| Important Dates |
| Argued: March 11, 1924 |
| Decided: May 26, 1924 |
| Outcome |
| Affirmed (includes modified) |
| Vote |
| 9-0 |
| Majority |
| Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter |
LUCKING v. DETROIT & CLEVELAND NAVIGATION COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 26, 1924. The case was argued before the court on March 11, 1924.
In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Michigan Eastern U.S. District Court.
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About the case
- Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal and some few state regulations of transportation regulation: boat
- Petitioner: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: Water transportation, stevedore
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 265 U.S. 346
- 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: Pierce Butler
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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