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NIAGARA HUDSON POWER CORP. v. LEVENTRITT (1951)

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NIAGARA HUDSON POWER CORP. v. LEVENTRITT
Term: 1950
Important Dates
Argued: December 5, 1950
Decided: January 15, 1951
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-2
Majority
Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Hugo Black • Felix Frankfurter

NIAGARA HUDSON POWER CORP. v. LEVENTRITT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 15, 1951. The case was argued before the court on December 5, 1950.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York New York Northern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1950s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Vinson Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal or state regulation of securities
  • Petitioner: Public utility
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Stockholder, shareholder, or bondholder
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 340 U.S. 336
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Harold Burton

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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