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MOOR v. TEXAS & NEW ORLEANS RAILROAD CO. (1936)

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MOOR v. TEXAS & NEW ORLEANS RAILROAD CO.
Term: 1935
Important Dates
Argued: December 10, 1935
Decided: January 13, 1936
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Benjamin Nathan Cardozo • Charles Evans Hughes • James Clark McReynolds • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • Willis Van Devanter

MOOR v. TEXAS & NEW ORLEANS RAILROAD CO. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 13, 1936. The case was argued before the court on December 10, 1935.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Texas Western U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1930s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Hughes Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: writ improvidently granted
  • Petitioner: Farmer, farm worker, or farm organization
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Railroad
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 297 U.S. 101
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Charles Evans Hughes
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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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