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NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY CO. et al. v. UNITED STATES (1958)

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NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY CO. et al. v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1957
Important Dates
Argued: January 7, 1958
Decided: March 10, 1958
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-3
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Earl Warren
Dissenting
Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II • Charles Whittaker

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY CO. et al. v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 10, 1958. The case was argued before the court on January 7, 1958.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Washington Western 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 Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Antitrust (except in the context of mergers and union antitrust)
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 356 U.S. 1
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Hugo Black

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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