NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. MOHNEY (1920) - Ballotpedia

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NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. MOHNEY

Term: 1919
Important Dates
Argued: January 27, 1920
Decided: March 1, 1920
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Edward Douglass White
Concurring
William Rufus Day • Willis Van Devanter

NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. MOHNEY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 1, 1920. The case was argued before the court on January 27, 1920.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Ohio 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: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 252 U.S. 152
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
Who wrote the majority opinion: John Hessin Clarke

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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