LUDWIG, SECRETARY OF STATE OF ARKANSAS, v. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY (1910)

LUDWIG, SECRETARY OF STATE OF ARKANSAS, v. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY
	Term: 1909
Important Dates
	Argued: April 13, 1909
	Decided: February 21, 1910
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	5-3
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • John Marshall Harlan • William Henry Moody • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	Melville Weston Fuller • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna

LUDWIG, SECRETARY OF STATE OF ARKANSAS, v. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 21, 1910. The case was argued before the court on April 13, 1909.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Arkansas U.S. Circuit Court for (all) District(s) of Arkansas.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal and some few state regulations of public utilities regulation: telephone or telegraph company
Petitioner: State commission, board, committee, or authority
Petitioner state: Arkansas
Respondent type: Telephone, telecommunications, or telegraph company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 216 U.S. 146
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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: John Marshall Harlan

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.