MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD CO. v. ELMORE & STAHL (1964)

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MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD CO. v. ELMORE & STAHL
Term: 1963
Important Dates
Argued: March 3, 1964
Decided: May 4, 1964
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
William Brennan • Tom Clark • Arthur Goldberg • John Harlan II • Potter Stewart • Earl Warren • Byron White
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Douglas

MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD CO. v. ELMORE & STAHL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 4, 1964. The case was argued before the court on March 3, 1964.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Texas State Trial Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Shipper, including importer and exporter
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 377 U.S. 134
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Potter Stewart

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.

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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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