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MINNEAPOLIS & ST. LOUIS RAILWAY CO. v. UNITED STATES et al. (1959)

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MINNEAPOLIS & ST. LOUIS RAILWAY CO. v. UNITED STATES et al.
Term: 1959
Important Dates
Argued: November 16, 1959
Decided: December 14, 1959
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-1
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • Tom Clark • Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II • Potter Stewart • Earl Warren • Charles Whittaker
Dissenting
William Douglas

MINNEAPOLIS & ST. LOUIS RAILWAY CO. v. UNITED STATES et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 14, 1959. The case was argued before the court on November 16, 1959.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Minnesota U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1950s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Mergers
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 361 U.S. 173
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Charles Whittaker

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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