MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. CLARENDON BOAT OAR COMPANY, INC. (1922) - Ballotpedia

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MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. CLARENDON BOAT OAR COMPANY, INC.

Term: 1921
Important Dates
Argued: January 20, 1922
Decided: February 27, 1922
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. CLARENDON BOAT OAR COMPANY, INC. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 27, 1922. The case was argued before the court on January 20, 1922.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Louisiana State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: Supreme Court jurisdiction or authority on appeal or writ of error, from highest state court
Petitioner: Nonresident
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Water transportation, stevedore
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 257 U.S. 533
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: William Howard Taft
Who wrote the majority opinion: William Howard Taft

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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