NEW YORK ET AL. v. UNITED STATES ET AL. (1947) - Ballotpedia

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NEW YORK ET AL. v. UNITED STATES ET AL.

Term: 1946
Important Dates
Argued: March 3, 1947
Decided: May 12, 1947
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Wiley Rutledge • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson

NEW YORK ET AL. v. UNITED STATES ET AL. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 12, 1947. The case was argued before the court on March 3, 1947.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York New York Northern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal or state regulation of transportation regulation: railroad
Petitioner: State
Petitioner state: New York
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 331 U.S. 284
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
Who wrote the majority opinion: William Douglas

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.

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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